“The temple of art is built in words.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland

“The temple of art is built in words.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland

There’s a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Stars are observed to orbit a very massive and compact object there known as Sgr A* (say “sadge-ay-star”). But this just released radio image (inset) from planet Earth’s Event Horizon Telescope is the first direct evidence of the Milky Way’s central black hole. As […]

AM Showers today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 91 Humidity. 15 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), later designated GOES-18. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/2022-05_geocolor_20220505180018_logos.png

“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” – Roy Lichtenstein

“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.” – Joyce Carol Oates

The massive stars of NGC 346 are short lived, but very energetic. The star cluster is embedded in the largest star forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, some 210,000 light-years distant. Their winds and radiation sweep out an interstellar cavern in the gas and dust cloud about 200 light-years across, triggering star formation and […]