Only natural colors of the Moon in planet Earth’s sky appear in this creative visual presentation. Arranged as pixels in a framed image, the lunar disks were photographed at different times. Their varying hues are ultimately due to reflected sunlight affected by changing atmospheric conditions and the alignment geometry of Moon, Earth, and Sun. Here, […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 84 Humidity. 9 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
With the Lucy spacecraft aboard, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility. via NASA https://ift.tt/30wuh2r
“And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.” – Black Elk
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” – Orson Welles
About 70 million light-years distant, gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 289 is larger than our own Milky Way. Seen nearly face-on, its bright core and colorful central disk give way to remarkably faint, bluish spiral arms. The extensive arms sweep well over 100 thousand light-years from the galaxy’s center. At the lower right in this sharp, […]
Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 79 Humidity. 6 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci
A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, toward the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. Its last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution. A total of 90 hours of exposure time […]