What will the huge Green Bank Telescope discover tonight? Pictured, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) on the lower right is the largest fully-pointable single-dish radio telescope in the world. With a central dish larger than a football field, the GBT is nestled in the hills of West Virginia, USA in a radio […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 91 Humidity. 7 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Melba Roy Mouton (1929-1990) was a mathematician and computer programmer in NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division. via NASA https://ift.tt/pawedYi
“The world is always in movement.” – V. S. Naipaul
What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to involve supermassive black holes in the centers of active galaxies. Gas and dust that falls toward a quasar glows brightly, sometimes outglowing the entire home galaxy. The quasars that formed in the first billion years of the universe are more mysterious, […]
Light Rain today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 87 Humidity. 4 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“Paint the essential character of things.” – Camille Pissarro
“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.” – John Webster
Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in this image taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. Visible are […]
Rain today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 80 Humidity. 4 C currently. 26 Km/h Wind from Southwest.