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 […]
NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. via NASA https://ift.tt/hWl72Jr
“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Showers today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 86 Humidity. 7 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy also known as NGC 5128, is featured in this sharp telescopic view. Centaurus A is apparently the result of a collision of two otherwise normal galaxies resulting in a fantastic jumble […]
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. via NASA https://ift.tt/gR2W6En
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 92 Humidity. 7 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
How far can you see? Everything you can see, and everything you could possibly see, right now, assuming your eyes could detect all types of radiations around you — is the observable universe. In light, the farthest we can see comes from the cosmic microwave background, a time 13.8 billion years ago when the universe […]
In this image from August 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits and reads while on the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/HUfxGc8