“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” – Stewart Udall

These cosmic clouds of gas and dust drift through rich star fields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the high flying constellation Cygnus. They’re too faint to be seen with the unaided eye though, even on a clear, dark night. Image data from a camera and telephoto lens using narrowband filters was […]

Showers today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 91 Humidity. 12 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The International Space Station orbits into a dawn 261 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean in this image from April 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/xH9A8UT

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” – Anatole France

What are those unusual streaks? Some images of planet Earth show clear bright streaks that follow the paths of ships. Known as ship tracks, these low and narrow bands are caused by the ship’s engine exhaust. Water vapor condenses around small bits of exhaust known as aerosols, which soon grow into floating water drops that […]

PM Rain today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 81 Humidity. 13 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

This November 1996 image from Magellan shows Dickinson, an impact crater in the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. via NASA https://ift.tt/GBvKVmM

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” – M. C. Escher