Hubble Views a Cosmic Interaction

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top). via NASA https://ift.tt/0dioul2

Nature quote of the day

“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.” – Robert Anton Wilson

Art Quote of the Day

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

IC 342: The Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis

Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342’s light is dimmed and reddened by intervening cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy’s own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy’s core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way. via NASA https://ift.tt/McDIvy5

AM Rain/Snow today!

AM Rain/Snow today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C.
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11 Km/h Wind from
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