Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola. via NASA https://ift.tt/VTSwrEp

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Ernst Fischer

“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau

A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth’s sky. In the image, composed with 30 hours of narrowband image data, it spans nearly three full moons toward the royal constellation Cepheus. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula’s bipolar shape is distinguished […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 92 Humidity. 9 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/acgmrsR

“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” – Samuel Butler

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.” – Roy Lichtenstein

What dark structures arise within the Pelican Nebula? On the whole, the nebula appears like a bird (a pelican) and is seen toward the constellation of a different bird: Cygnus, a Swan. But inside, the Pelican Nebula is a place lit up by new stars and befouled by dark dust. Smoke-sized dust grains start as […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 93 Humidity. 12 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Northeast.