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 […]

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 […]