“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” – Vincent Van Gogh

South is up in this detailed telescopic view across the Moon’s rugged southern highlands. Captured on July 20, the lunar landscape features the Moon’s young and old, the large craters Tycho and Clavius. About 100 million years young, Tycho is the sharp-walled 85 kilometer diameter crater near center, its 2 kilometer tall central peak in […]

PM Light Rain today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 86 Humidity. 16 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

Wikipedia article of the day is York County, Maine, Tercentenary half dollar. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The York County, Maine, Tercentenary half dollar is a fifty-cent piece minted in 1936 as a commemorative coin to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of York County, the southernmost county in Maine and the first to […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 5, 2021: Door lock on bunker 26 at the area of the US army at the special ammunition depot in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info

An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, and astronauts fly on theirs. via NASA https://ift.tt/3fxjvh7

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E. M. Forster

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” – Henry David Thoreau

How do supermassive black holes create powerful jets? To help find out, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) imaged the center of the nearby active galaxy Centaurus A. The cascade of featured inset images shows Cen A from it largest, taking up more sky than many moons, to its now finest, taking up only as much […]

PM Showers today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 87 Humidity. 14 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.