“Through a painting we can see the whole world.” – Hans Hofmann

“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” – Georg Trakl

What happens if you crash a spaceship into an asteroid? In the case of NASA’s DART spaceship and the small asteroid Dimorphos, as happened last week, you get quite a plume. The goal of the planned impact was planetary protection — to show that the path of an asteroid can be slightly altered, so that, […]

AM Fog/PM Sun today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 91 Humidity. 8 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa. via NASA https://ift.tt/ZivmyU7

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.” – Henry David Thoreau

The whole thing looks like an eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula’s center, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 90 Humidity. 6 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman