Do we dare believe our eyes? When we look at images of space, we often wonder whether they are “real”, and just as often the best answer varies. In this case, the scene appears much as our eyes would see it, because it was obtained using RGB (Red, Green, Blue) filters like the cone cells […]
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 97 Humidity. 12 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.” – Constantin Stanislavski
“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.” – Nikolai Gogol
Could the stem of our Milky Way bloom into an auroral flower? No, not really, even though it may appear that way in today’s featured all-sky image. On the left, the central plane of our home galaxy extends from the horizon past the middle of the sky. On the right, an auroral oval also extends […]
PM Showers today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 79 Humidity. 14 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/YRsle6F
“Insight is the first condition of Art.” – George Henry Lewes
“A weed is but an unloved flower.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Why would x-ray rings appear around a gamma-ray burst? The surprising answer has little to do with the explosion itself but rather with light reflected off areas of dust-laden gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. GRB 221009A was a tremendous explosion — a very bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) that occurred far across the universe […]