Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. Rarely is one without the other. via NASA https://ift.tt/3swa6vA

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” – Luigi Pirandello

The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure – a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes – explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula’s central […]

Showers today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 91 Humidity. 14 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 18, 2021: Waltensburg/Vuorz. Switzerland. ruins of a castle Munt Sorn Gieri. (Burg Jörgenberg). More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Gurian Republic. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Gurian Republic was an insurrection and protest movement in the western Georgian region of Guria between 1902 and 1906, against the Russian Empire. It arose from a revolt over land grazing rights; taxation, land ownership and economic factors were also concerns. […]

In this image, a NASA Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket was launched to study a very fundamental problem in space plasmas. via NASA https://ift.tt/3sp1sPb

“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial circle. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though. The recent mapping of the expanding nebula’s 3-D structure, based in part on this clear Hubble image,indicates that the nebula is a relatively dense, donut-like […]