“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 […]

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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

“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” – Edna Ferber

The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier’s famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, expanding debris from massive star’s death explosion, witnessed on planet Earth in 1054 AD. This brave new image offers a 21st century […]

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars’ Jezero Crater called “Santa Cruz” on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. via NASA https://ift.tt/JD4SzLp

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats