Why doesn’t the nearby galaxy create a gravitational lensing effect on the background galaxy? It does, but since both galaxies are so nearby, the angular shift is much smaller than the angular sizes of the galaxies themselves. The featured Hubble image of NGC 3314 shows two large spiral galaxies which happen to line up exactly. […]
Cloudy today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 93 Humidity. 5 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
This image taken from the space station shows the blue-green waters around the Bahamas. via NASA https://ift.tt/3Do0R5c
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” – Thomas Hood
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” – Thomas Hood
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” – Thomas Hood
“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.” – Robert Delaunay
“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.” – Robert Delaunay
“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.” – Robert Delaunay
Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids — because shower meteors all appear to come from a radiant toward Gemini. Three dimensionally, however, sand-sized debris […]