“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” – Victor Hugo

This almost otherworldly display of northern lights was captured in clear skies during the early hours of March 31 from 44 degrees north latitude, planet Earth. In a five second exposure the scene looks north from Martinique Beach Provincial Park in Nova Scotia, Canada. Stars of the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia shine well above the horizon, […]

Light Snow today! With a high of 1C and a low of 1C. 91 Humidity. -1 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from North.

Engineers and technicians are continuing to prepare for the Artemis I wet dress rehearsal test which is slated to begin on April 1 and conclude on April 3.   via NASA https://ift.tt/ci0DHop

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.” – Aesop

The natural filter of a hazy atmosphere offered this recognizable architecture and sunset view on March 27. Dark against the solar disk, large sunspots in solar active regions 2975 and 2976 are wedged between the Duomo of Pisa and its famous Leaning Tower. Only one day later, Sun-staring spacecraft watched active region 2975 unleash a […]

Rain/Snow today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 93 Humidity. 3 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Northwest.

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Bob Hines is pictured during a training session inside a mockup of the Crew Dragon vehicle at SpaceX Headquarters. via NASA https://ift.tt/kmVlpfU

“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.” – Ellsworth Huntington

Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies are colliding. Stars in the two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, very rarely collide in the course of the ponderous cataclysm that lasts for hundreds of millions of years. But the galaxies’ large clouds of molecular gas and dust […]