“As the twig is bent the tree inclines.” – Virgil

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 64 Humidity. 4 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

What’s that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east – west, and on two days each year, the Sun rises and sets right down the middle. Today is one of those days: an equinox. Not only is today a day of equal night (“aequus”-“nox”) and day time, […]

“We must return to nature and nature’s god.” – Luther Burbank

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 69 Humidity. 6 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

2MASS J17554042+6551277 doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue but that’s the name, a coordinate-based catalog designation, of the star centered in this sharp field of view. Fans of the distant universe should get used to its spiky appearance though. The diffraction pattern is created by the 18 hexagonal mirror segments of the James Webb Space […]

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 […]