Andromeda Over The Swiss Alps Image Credit: Dzmitry Kananovich

IC 2087 Taurus Molecular Cloud © Nik Szymanek

Happy Moon Landing Day 🌕🐇

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; "An Experience,"

Cosmic Dance of Spiral Galaxies: Arp 238

Saturn in near-infrared

Apollo 16 rollout attracts a crowd at the Vehicle Assembly Building, 9 February 1972.

The photos that NASAHubble & NASAWebb took of The Pillars of Creation inspired me deeply. I had to draw what I saw in the formation: A hand reaching into the universe. What an accomplishment for humankind and what a symbol for exploration and knowledge. Credit 2nd image: NASA

Mars painting by Herb Herrick for an article about terraforming in World Book Science Annual 1975. Consultant: Carl Sagan. The first painting (top) is followed by two clear plastic overlays of the skies and rain and finally plant life.

Francesco Levy, The Constellations of Summer