“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” – Emily Dickinson

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky. The featured image is a digital combination of images taken in different colors by the […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 91 Humidity. 14 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” – Andre Maurois

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.” – Carl Sandburg

Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans to see pareidolia — imagining familiar icons where they don’t actually exist. The textured surface of Earth’s full Moon is home to numerous identifications of iconic objects, not only in modern western culture but in world folklore […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 29C and a low of 29C. 77 Humidity. 14 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” – Abraham Lincoln

At night you can follow this road as it passes through the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve not too far from Alentejo, Portugal. Or you could stop, look up, and follow the Milky Way through the sky. Both stretch from horizon to horizon in this 180 degree panorama recorded on June 3. Our galaxy’s name, the […]