“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Great artists have no country.” – Alfred de Musset

Beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears as only a faint, extended object in small telescopes. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight in […]

Thunderstorms today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 91 Humidity. 16 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

Near the center of the Milky Way lies this star-studded globular cluster, called Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius. via NASA https://ift.tt/TYIFkZO

“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.” – Charles Dickens

Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would have suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was from a supernova, or exploding star, and record the expanding debris cloud as the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant. Imaged […]