Exactly what is pure love? well a web-friend of mine gave me a dazzling explanation yesterday so i thought i ought to share it with you all. This is completely his theory, i take no credit for it. However before i go any further, i must tell you that he first mad it clear that pure love is nothing that i have listed below, and if any love fits into these definitions then it is not pure: 1. Read Full Story

Daily Quote: My momma always told me; life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get. - Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight Explanation: Here is one of the largest objects that anyone will ever see on the sky. Each of these fuzzy blobs is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies. The cluster is seen through a... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: Life is not how many breaths you take its the moments that take your breath away - Will smith (Hitch) Illustration Credit : Dana Berry, NASA Explanation: Where did the gold in your jewelry originate? No one is completely sure. The relative average abundance in our Solar System appears higher than can be made in the early universe, in stars, and even in typical supernova explosions. Some astronomers have recently suggested that neutron-rich heavy elements such as gold might be... Read Full Story

Daily Quote : Hail oh stars. Why do you hail us when we are the ones hailing you - Me Image Credit: M101 - NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO; Typhoon Rammasun - MODIS, NASA Comparison: Lawrence Anderson-Huang (Ritter Astrophysical Obs., Univ. Toledo) Explanation: Uncomfortably close Typhoon Rammasun (right) and 25 million light-year distant galaxy M101 don’t seem to have much in common. For starters, Rammasun was only a thousand kilometers or so across while M101 (aka the Pinwheel Galaxy) spans about... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: One cannot see without being seen. - Me Credit & Copyright: Jean-Marc Lecleire Explanation: Gazing skyward on a sunny day in May, photographer Jean-Marc Lecleire captured this engaging display of ice halos forming complete circles in the sky. Recorded with a fish-eye lens from a spot near the grand Château de Chambord in France, the picture looks straight up, spanning almost 180 degrees from horizon to horizon. Surrounding the Sun is a halo formed by sunlight refracting... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: Life is not what you perceive it to be, rather it is what you believe it to be. Credit & Copyright: Keith Quattrocchi Explanation: Dark dust lanes cut across the middle of this gorgeous island universe, a strong hint that NGC 3628 is a spiral galaxy seen sideways. About 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo, NGC 3628 also bears the distinction of being the only member of the well known Leo triplet of galaxies not in Charles Messier’s famous... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: Don’t lose your grip on the dreams of the past, you must fight just to keep them alive! - Survivor, Eye of the tiger. Credit: ISS Expedition 16 Crew, NASA Explanation: Looking out a window of the International Space Station brings breathtaking views. Visible vistas include a vast and colorful Earth, a deep dark sky, and an occasional spaceship sent to visit the station. Visible early last month was a Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft carrying not only supplies but also three newcomers... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: Nothing is worth achieving, everything is worth nothing. - Me Ancient Craters of Southern Rhea Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: Saturn’s ragged moon Rhea has one of the oldest surfaces known. Estimated as changing little in the past billion years, Rhea shows craters so old they no longer appear round – their edges have become compromised by more recent cratering. Like Earth’s Moon, Rhea’s rotation is locked on Saturn, and the above image shows... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: There is no reality incorrect of perception (There is no incorrect perception of reality) - Me Credit & Copyright: Jordi Gallego Explanation: Large galaxies and faint nebula highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in the above wide-angle 12-hour exposure is the grand design spiral galaxy M81, the largest galaxy visible in the image. M81 is gravitationally interacting with M82 just below it, a big galaxy with an unusual halo of filamentary red... Read Full Story

Daily Quote: Doing what you always have will get you what you always got. - Unknown Retrograde Mars Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN) Explanation: Why would Mars appear to move backwards? Most of the time, the apparent motion of Mars in Earth’s sky is in one direction, slow but steady in front of the far distant stars. About every two years, however, the Earth passes Mars as they orbit around the Sun. During the most recent such pass over the last year, the proximity of Mars made the... Read Full Story