“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.” – Lionel Trilling

Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known. Spanning half a light-year, the features seen in the Cat’s Eye are so complex that astronomers suspect the […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 71 Humidity. 16 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from North.

“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.” – Steven Pinker

Soaring high in skies around planet Earth, bright planet Saturn was a star of June’s morning planet parade. But very briefly on June 24 it posed with a bright object in low Earth orbit, the International Space Station. On that date from a school parking lot in Temecula, California the ringed-planet and International Space Station […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 25C and a low of 25C. 74 Humidity. 12 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. via NASA https://ift.tt/BLq7n5s

“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.” – James Schuyler

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

With roots on a rotating planet, an old tree is centered in this sequence of 137 exposures each 20 seconds long, recorded one night from northern Sicily. Digital camera and fisheye lens were fixed to a tripod to capture the dramatic timelapse, so the stars trailed through the region’s dark sky. Of course that makes […]