​A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 274 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. via NASA https://ift.tt/3G28kZj

“Art is the daughter of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.” – Charles Baudelaire

Why would this mission go out as far as Jupiter — but then not visit Jupiter? Lucy’s plan is to follow different leads about the origin of our Solar System than can be found at Jupiter — where Juno now orbits. Jupiter is such a massive planet that its gravity captures numerous asteroids that orbit […]

PM Showers today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 60 Humidity. 14 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface of Mars collected by the Mars Perseverance rover. via NASA https://ift.tt/3lViYsJ

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” – C. S. Lewis

Where did this big ball of stars come from? Palomar 6 is one of about 200 globular clusters of stars that survive in our Milky Way Galaxy. These spherical star-balls are older than our Sun as well as older than most stars that orbit in our galaxy’s disk. Palomar 6 itself is estimated to be […]

AM Light Rain today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 76 Humidity. 11 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.