“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” – Samuel Butler

What’s happened to the Sun? Two days ago, parts of South America were treated to a partial solar eclipse — where the Moon blocked out part of the Sun. The featured image shows an image of the partially eclipsed Sun through clouds as it was setting over Patagonia, Argentina. In the tilted image, Earth is […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 77 Humidity. 8 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” – Jean Cocteau

What does a black hole look like? To find out, radio telescopes from around the Earth coordinated observations of black holes with the largest known event horizons on the sky. Alone, black holes are just black, but these monster attractors are known to be surrounded by glowing gas. This first image resolves the area around […]

Showers today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 88 Humidity. 7 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Northwest.

“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” – Pierre Bonnard

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” – Vladimir Nabokov

A mere 600 light-years away, M44 is one of the closest star clusters to our solar system. Also known as the Praesepe or the Beehive cluster its stars are young though, about 600 million years old compared to our Sun’s 4.5 billion years. Based on similar ages and motion through space, M44 and the even […]