“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” – Jean Giraudoux

Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however — like an approaching storm — may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth’s atmosphere. These gravity waves are oscillations in air analogous to those created when a […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 58 Humidity. 3 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

Northern winter constellations and a long arc of the Milky Way are setting in this night skyscape looking toward the Pacific Ocean from Point Reyes on planet Earth’s California coast. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is prominent below the starry arc toward the left. Orion’s yellowish Betelgeuse, Aldebaran in Taurus, and the blue tinted […]

Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 63 Humidity. 5 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/Dz8ElyP

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” – Pierre Schaeffer

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” – Pierre Schaeffer

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.” – Iris Murdoch