This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the central region of the gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474. via NASA https://ift.tt/qXdw1gQ

“Nature is not human hearted.” – Lao Tzu

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” – John Ruskin

Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May’s Full Flower Moon slipped through Earth’s shadow in a total lunar eclipse. In skies above Chile’s Atacama desert this telephoto snapshot still captured an awesome spectacle though. Seen through thin high cirrus clouds just before totality began, a last sliver of sunlit crescent glistens like […]

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Dr. Kartik Sheth’s career spans academia, non-profits, and government. via NASA https://ift.tt/X8CIP0v

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Painting and writing are solitary arts.” – Conrad Hall

Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Investigations indicate that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just on the upper right. Supporting evidence includes the dark dust lanes characteristic […]

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