“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo

This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned with the Sun. Eventually the […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 63 Humidity. -2 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman

“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce

From somewhere else in the Milky Way galaxy, Comet 2I/Borisov was just visiting the Solar System. Discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov on August 30, 2019, the first known interstellar comet is seen in these two Hubble Space Telescope images from November and December 2019. On the left, a distant background galaxy near the line-of-sight […]

Sunny today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 62 Humidity. -1 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from East.

In this undated image form the 1960s, Nancy Grace Roman sits in her office in NASA Headquarters. Roman was the first chief astronomer for NASA. via NASA https://ift.tt/tUvyBxZ

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.” – Charles Dudley Warner