“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 […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 84 Humidity. 4 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

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

“Art is born of humiliation.” – W. H. Auden

“I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.” – Norman MacCaig

It may look like a huge cosmic question mark, but the big question really is how does the bright gas and dark dust tell this nebula’s history of star formation. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region NGC 7822 lies about 3,000 light-years away. […]

AM Fog/PM Clouds today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 92 Humidity. 6 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. via NASA https://ift.tt/3v4H7js

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” – Ernst Fischer