“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand

What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 30 years ago: red sprites. Recent research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on March 30, 2021: Almandine on gray-green schist from North Tyrol, Austria. https://ift.tt/3m2Rzne

Wikipedia article of the day is Dresden Triptych. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3cwHPyw Summary: The Dresden Triptych is a very small hinged-triptych altarpiece signed and dated 1437 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It consists of five paintings: one central and four on two double-sided wings. It may have been intended as a portable […]

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This artist’s concept is of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. via NASA https://ift.tt/39qrCJ7

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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