Month: April 2022
Nature quote of the day
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” – John Ruskin
Planet Parade over Sydney Opera House
The world is waking up to a picturesque planet parade. Just before dawn, the eastern skies over much of planet Earth are decorated by a notable line of familiar planets. In much of Earth’s northern hemisphere, this line of planets appears most nearly horizontal, but in much of Earth’s southern hemisphere, the line appears more nearly vertical. Pictured over the Sydney Opera House in southern Australia, the planet line was captured nearly vertical about five days ago. From top to bottom, the morning planets are Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. As April ends, the angular distance between Venus and Jupiter will gradually pass below a degree as they switch places. Then, as May ends, Jupiter will pass near Mars as those two planets switch places. In June, the parade will briefly expand to include Mercury. via NASA https://ift.tt/KbjWaV8
Showers today!
Showers today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C.
95 Humidity.
8 C currently.
6 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.
95 Humidity.
8 C currently.
6 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.
Artemis I, Crew-4, & Starlink Rockets on the Pad
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of the company’s Starlink internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 40. via NASA https://ift.tt/oKBiV5e
Art Quote of the Day
“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.” – Charles Eames
Nature quote of the day
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
The Great Nebula in Carina
In one of the brightest parts of Milky Way lies a nebula where some of the oddest things occur. NGC 3372, known as the Great Nebula in Carina, is home to massive stars and changing nebulas. The Keyhole Nebula (NGC 3324), the bright structure just below the image center, houses several of these massive stars. The entire Carina Nebula, captured here, spans over 300 light years and lies about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of Carina. Eta Carinae, the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Nebula in Carina has been a veritable supernova factory. via NASA https://ift.tt/uv7YWVw
Showers today!
Showers today! With a high of 15C and a low of 15C.
94 Humidity.
8 C currently.
6 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.
94 Humidity.
8 C currently.
6 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.
Nature quote of the day
“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.” – Wallace Stevens
Art Quote of the Day
“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” – Alfred de Vigny
Split the Universe
Just now, before you hit the button, two future universes are possible. After pressing the button, though, you will live in only one. A real-web version of the famous SchrΓΒΆdinger’s cat experiment clicking the red button in the featured astronaut image should transform that image into a picture of the same astronaut holding one of two cats — one living, or one dead. The timing of your click, combined with the wiring of your brain and the millisecond timing of your device, will all conspire together to create a result dominated, potentially, by the randomness of quantum mechanics. Some believe that your personally-initiated quantum decision will split the universe in two, and that both the live-cat and dead-cat universes exist in separate parts of a larger multiverse. Others believe that the result of your click will collapse the two possible universes into one — in a way that could not have been predicted beforehand. Yet others believe that the universe is classically deterministic, so that by pressing the button you did not really split the universe, but just carried out an action predestined since time began. We at APOD believe that however silly you may feel clicking the red button, and regardless of the outcome, you should have a thought-provoking day. Or two. via NASA https://ift.tt/T5FPIs1
Rain today!
Rain today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C.
84 Humidity.
9 C currently.
13 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.
84 Humidity.
9 C currently.
13 Km/h Wind from
Southwest.
Nature quote of the day
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.” – Diogenes
Art Quote of the Day
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.” – Georges Braque
Messier 104
A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting a more popular moniker, the Sombrero Galaxy. This sharp view of the well-known galaxy was made from over 10 hours of Hubble Space Telescope image data, processed to bring out faint details often lost in the overwhelming glare of M104’s bright central bulge. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum, and is host to a central supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Still, the spiky foreground stars in this field of view lie well within our own Milky Way. via NASA https://ift.tt/wWknQGO
Cloudy today!
Cloudy today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C.
65 Humidity.
10 C currently.
13 Km/h Wind from
East.
65 Humidity.
10 C currently.
13 Km/h Wind from
East.
A Sunrise Across Our World
An orbital sunrise beams across Earth’s horizon revealing silhouetted clouds above the South China Sea. via NASA https://ift.tt/2c8SzUj
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