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, […]
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“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 […]
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NASA’s Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids. via NASA https://ift.tt/3lCrOeN