Yes, but can you see the lion? A deep exposure shows the famous dark indentation that looks like a horse’s head, visible just left and below center, and known unsurprisingly as the Horsehead Nebula. The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is part of a vast complex of dark absorbing dust and bright glowing gas. To bring […]
Sunny today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 65 Humidity. -3 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo
This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 63 Humidity. -2 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce
From somewhere else in the Milky Way galaxy, Comet 2I/Borisov was just visiting the Solar System. Discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov on August 30, 2019, the first known interstellar comet is seen in these two Hubble Space Telescope images from November and December 2019. On the left, a distant background galaxy near the line-of-sight […]
Sunny today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 62 Humidity. -1 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from East.