Real castles aren’t this old. And the background galaxy is even older. Looking a bit like an alien castle, the pictured rock spires are called hoodoos and are likely millions of years old. Rare, but found around the world, hoodoos form when dense rocks slow the erosion of softer rock underneath. The pictured hoodoos survive […]
Thundershowers today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 59 Humidity. 18 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” – Philip Johnson
“Shadow owes its birth to light.” – John Gay
What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth’s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 55 Humidity. 14 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from East.
“Use plants to bring life.” – Douglas Wilson
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” – Honore de Balzac
An almost full moon on April 15 brought these luminous apparitions to a northern spring night over Alberta Canada. On that night, bright moonlight refracted and reflected by hexagonal ice crystals in high clouds created a complex of halos and arcs more commonly seen by sunlight in daytime skies. While the colors of the arcs […]
Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 73 Humidity. 10 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from South.