Earth’s Moon is seen rising behind NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. via NASA https://ift.tt/iktxpDN

“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 85 Humidity. 6 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

Bluish reflection nebulae seem to fill this dusty expanse. The sharp telescopic frame spans over 1 degree on the sky toward the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Seen within the Monoceros R1 cloud complex some 2,500 light-years away, bluish IC 447 is on the left, joined by a long dark filament of dust […]

NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. via NASA https://ift.tt/hWl72Jr

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Showers today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 86 Humidity. 7 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy also known as NGC 5128, is featured in this sharp telescopic view. Centaurus A is apparently the result of a collision of two otherwise normal galaxies resulting in a fantastic jumble […]

Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. via NASA https://ift.tt/gR2W6En

“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer