“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” – Michael Pollan

Plowing through Earth’s atmosphere at 60 kilometers per second, this bright perseid meteor streaks along a starry Milky Way. Captured in dark Portugal skies on August 12, it moves right to left through the frame. Its colorful trail starts near Deneb (alpha Cygni) and ends near Altair (alpha Aquilae), stars of the northern summer triangle. […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 87 Humidity. 16 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Wikipedia article of the day is Orangutan. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Three species in the genus Pongo are recognised. The most arboreal of the great apes, orangutans spend most of their time in trees. They have proportionally long arms and short legs […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 19, 2021: 55 Cancri e: Skies Sparkle Above a Never-Ending Ocean of Lava. Poster from the NASA Exoplanets Exploration Program’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau. More Info

Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. Rarely is one without the other. via NASA https://ift.tt/3swa6vA

“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney

“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” – Luigi Pirandello

The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure – a collaborative effort combining data from three different large telescopes – explores the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula’s central […]

Showers today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 91 Humidity. 14 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.