“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall

Fainter stars in the zodiacal constellation Capricornus are scattered near the plane of the ecliptic in this field of view. The two brightest ones at center aren’t stars at all though, but the planets Mars and Saturn. Taken on the morning of April 4, the telescopic snapshot captured their tantalizing close conjunction in a predawn […]

Rain/Snow today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 95 Humidity. 0 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

SpaceX’s Axiom-1 is in the foreground on Launch Pad 39A with NASA’s Artemis I in the background on Launch Pad 39B on April 6, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/DXYSUgF

SpaceX’s Axiom-1 is in the foreground on Launch Pad 39A with NASA’s Artemis I in the background on Launch Pad 39B on April 6, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/DXYSUgF

“The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.” – Elias Hicks

“Art is not living. It is the use of living.” – Audre Lorde

Only twenty-five years ago, Comet Hale-Bopp rounded the Sun and offered a dazzling spectacle in planet Earth’s night skies. Digitized from the original astrophoto on 35mm color slide film, this classic image of the Great Comet of 1997 was recorded a few days after its perihelion passage on April 1, 1997. Made with a camera […]

Rain today! With a high of 10C and a low of 10C. 62 Humidity. 7 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Japan’s Geiyo Archipelago, in the Seito Inland Sea, was once home to pirates. via NASA https://ift.tt/jJcGre3