Sunny today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 72 Humidity. 4 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Halloween’s origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) and a solstice (minimum day / maximum night in the northern hemisphere). With a modern calendar however, even though Halloween occurs next week, the real […]

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” – Gertrude Stein

“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.” – Pierre Bonnard

Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid 101955 Bennu. Shaped like a spinning toy top with boulders littering its rough surface, the tiny Solar System world is about one Empire State Building (less than 500 meters) across. Frames used to construct this 3D anaglyph were taken by PolyCam on the OSIRIS_REx spacecraft […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 78 Humidity. 8 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida lifted the Orion spacecraft and placed it atop the Space Launch System Moon rocket. via NASA https://ift.tt/2XByvEV

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein

“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.” – Raoul Dufy

This pretty field of view spans over 2 degrees or 4 full moons on the sky, filled with stars toward the constellation Taurus, the Bull. Above and right of center in the frame you can spot the faint fuzzy reddish appearance of Messier 1 (M1), also known as the Crab Nebula. M1 is the first […]