“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.” – Egon Schiele

Many details of Saturn appear clearly in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn’s North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon’s existence was not predicted, and its […]

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” – Alfred Austin

“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.” – Eugenio Montale

Have you seen a panorama from another world lately? Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility. The images were taken by Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module shortly after […]

We’re celebrating 50 years of Landsat. via NASA https://ift.tt/mt4h5LR

“A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.” – Joshua Reynolds

“There is the sky, which is all men’s together.” – Euripides

Beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 74 (also known as NGC 628) lies some 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. An island universe of about 100 billion stars with two prominent spiral arms, M74 has long been admired by astronomers as a perfect example of a grand-design spiral galaxy. M74’s central region is brought into […]

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