Art Quote of the Day

“Paint the essential character of things.” – Camille Pissarro

Nature quote of the day

“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.” – John Webster

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217

Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in this image taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long bar of stars across the center, and a bright active nucleus that likely houses a supermassive black hole. Light takes about 60 million years to reach us from NGC 6217, which spans about 30,000 light years across and can be found toward the constellation of the Little Bear (Ursa Minor). via NASA https://ift.tt/bjLNSv9

Rain today!

Rain today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C.
80 Humidity.
4 C currently.
26 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.