“The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

Why does Comet Leonard’s tail wag? The featured time-lapse video shows the ion tail of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) as it changed over ten days early last month. The video was taken by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft that co-orbits the Sun at roughly the same distance as the Earth. Each image in […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 95 Humidity. 1 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.” – Ellen Key

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” – Duke Ellington

What will become of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system’s largest world with about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. Jupiter is home to one of the largest and longest lasting storm systems known, the Great Red Spot (GRS), visible to the left. The GRS is so large it […]

Rain/Snow today! With a high of 5C and a low of 5C. 92 Humidity. 3 C currently. 21 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” – Carl Sagan

Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth’s northern hemisphere skygazers. The shower’s radiant on the sky lies within the old, astronomically obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. That location is not far from the Big Dipper, at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes and Draco. In […]