VISAREI

[imoutsidelookingin]

Vandelaanliving

[topcat77]

Rashid Johnson 

Untitled Anxious Red Drawing, 2020

Oil on cotton rag

[odaro]

Derby House / Akin Atelier

[alisonzai]

[naturalcottage]

The perfect room.

[ladyburde]

Colleen Heslin,  Overlapping Thoughts and Feelings, dye on sewn canvas, 218cm x 183cm / 86"x72", 2018

[le-poisson-rouge]

Dan Flavin 

[nostoccommune]

GRRRRRRRR I don't WANT to confirm my email address! I HATE confirming my email address! *rips the door off my fridge*

[apod]

2020 April 26

Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe Image Credit & Copyright: Courtesy Carnegie Institution for Science

Explanation: How big is our universe? This very question, among others, was debated by two leading astronomers 100 years ago today in what has become known as astronomy’s Great Debate. Many astronomers then believed that our Milky Way Galaxy was the entire universe. Many others, though, believed that our galaxy was just one of many. In the Great Debate, each argument was detailed, but no consensus was reached. The answer came over three years later with the detected variation of single spot in the Andromeda Nebula, as shown on the original glass discovery plate digitally reproduced here. When Edwin Hubble compared images, he noticed that this spot varied, and so wrote “VAR!” on the plate. The best explanation, Hubble knew, was that this spot was the image of a variable star that was very far away. So M31 was really the Andromeda Galaxy – a galaxy possibly similar to our own. The featured image may not be pretty, but the variable spot on it opened a door through which humanity gazed knowingly, for the first time, into a surprisingly vast cosmos.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200426.html

[seasonal-magic]

fridlaa

[glitter-littered-streets]

[stylish-homes]

[space-pics]

Occultation of Saturn behind the Moon, captured by New Zealand astronomer, Paul Stewart [976x1200]

[apod]

2019 November 25

NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Josep Drudis

Explanation: Do you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), the Bat Nebula, NGC 6995, spans only ½ degree, about the apparent size of the Moon. That translates to 12 light-years at the Veil’s estimated distance, a reassuring 1,400 light-years from planet Earth. In the composite of image data recorded through broad and narrow band filters, emission from hydrogen atoms in the remnant is shown in red with strong emission from oxygen and nitrogen atoms shown in hues of blue. Of course, in the western part of the Veil lies another seasonal apparition: the Witch’s Broom Nebula.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191125.html

[v-o-i-d]

[kazland]

Dissected rainbow falling down acrylic, water pastel, pencil 9x11″ panel KAZLAND - 2019

[kazland]

Three narrow dogs drinking together at backbar

acrylic, water pastel

10x20″ panel

KAZLAND - 2017