“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” – Georg Trakl

Sunrise at the South Pole is different. Usually a welcome sight, it follows months of darkness — and begins months of sunshine. At Earth’s poles, it can take weeks for the Sun to rise, in contrast with just minutes at any mid-latitude location. Sunrise at a pole is caused by the tilt of the Earth […]

Rain today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 95 Humidity. 12 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

When it comes time for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft to power itself through deep space, it’ll be more brain than brawn that does the work. via NASA https://ift.tt/3FiQmkQ

These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as the “Mice” because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. The long tails are created by the relative difference between gravitational pulls on the near and far parts of each galaxy. Because the distances are so […]

Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 92 Humidity. 12 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Sure, you can see the 2D rectangle of colors, but can you see deeper? Counting color patches in the featured image, you might estimate that the most information that this 2D digital image can hold is about 60 (horizontal) x 50(vertical) x 256 (possible colors) = 768,000 bits. However, the yet-unproven Holographic Principle states that, […]

PM Rain today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 55 Humidity. 20 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Posing as a brilliant evening star, Venus lies near the western horizon in this southern hemisphere, early spring, night skyscape. To create the composite view exposures tracking the sky and fixed for the foreground were taken on September 25 from Cascavel in southern Brazil. In view after sunset, Venus appears immersed in a cone of […]