The spiky stars in the foreground of this backyard telescopic frame are well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. But the two eye-catching galaxies lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a distance of over 300 million light-years. Their distorted appearance is due to gravitational tides as the pair engage in close encounters. Cataloged as […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 60 Humidity. 5 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, and took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept. 10, 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/m0Tkxh7
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.” – Gian Carlo Menotti
Galactic or open star clusters are young. The swarms of stars are born together near the plane of the Milky Way, but their numbers steadily dwindle as cluster members are ejected by galactic tides and gravitational interactions. Caught in this telescopic frame over three degrees across are three good examples of galactic star clusters, seen […]
Rain/Wind today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 67 Humidity. 9 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” – Ansel Adams
Dark markings and bright nebulae in this telescopic southern sky view are telltale signs of young stars and active star formation. They lie a mere 650 light-years away, at the boundary of the local bubble and the Chamaeleon molecular cloud complex. Regions with young stars identified as dusty reflection nebulae from the 1946 Cederblad catalog […]