“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” – James Montgomery

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 88 Humidity. 6 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Where do stars form? One place, star forming regions known as “EGGs”, are being uncovered at the end of this giant pillar of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula (M16). Short for evaporating gaseous globules, EGGs are dense regions of mostly molecular hydrogen gas that fragment and gravitationally collapse to form stars. Light from […]

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” – Jean Giraudoux

Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however — like an approaching storm — may cause noticeable rippling in the Earth’s atmosphere. These gravity waves are oscillations in air analogous to those created when a […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 58 Humidity. 3 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

Northern winter constellations and a long arc of the Milky Way are setting in this night skyscape looking toward the Pacific Ocean from Point Reyes on planet Earth’s California coast. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is prominent below the starry arc toward the left. Orion’s yellowish Betelgeuse, Aldebaran in Taurus, and the blue tinted […]

Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 63 Humidity. 5 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/Dz8ElyP