Nature Hub

  From  - Sky &Telescope  By - Bob King  Edited by - Amal Udawatta       This montage of Hubble imagery shows the four bright planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Venus — and the two fainter ones, Uranus and Neptune (lower left), that will line up across the winter sky this month and next. NASA / JPL-Caltech / JAXA Catch four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars — in the evening sky. With good binoculars, Uranus and Neptune also become visible. Plus, Comet ATLAS may survive its close approach to the Sun. I like easy. Mining the deep-sky or spending a half-hour teasing out Martian surface features have their rewards, but it's been a blast to scan the evening sky this month and enjoy the planets with just my eyes. Venus and Saturn are paired in the west and will be in conjunction this coming weekend. Turn around and face east, and Jupiter and Mars eagerly greet your gaze. Add in the glitter of the Winter Hexagon and its captive, Betelgeuse, and...

   From - Space.com By -  Sharmila Kuthunur Edited by - Amal Udawatta Quasar J0742+2704 (center) became a subject of interest after it was discovered to have a newborn jet blasting from the disk around its supermassive black hole.   (Image credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Kristina Nyland (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above is from last year, and it showcases several galaxies that inhabit a pocket of our universe roughly 5.94 billion light-years away from us. Astronomers, however, have been particularly intrigued by what isn't visible in the image, but rather only "seen" through radio emissions. Blasting from the central galaxy — home to a  black hole  more than 400 million times our sun — is a powerful jet that could provide fresh clues about how galaxies and their black holes evolve in tandem over eons. First, however, we need to figure out where this jet in the  Hubble Telescope  image cam...

  From - BBC News   By - Dominic Lutyens   Edited by  - Amal Udawatta Artfully Walls (Credit: Artfully Walls) "It's about what speaks to you": Displaying paintings, prints, textiles and sculptures can all help create a fresh living space for the new year – here's how, according to the experts. January is a popular time of year to refresh priorities – and perhaps our surroundings too, creating a new mood for a new year. New artworks can transform a living space, and also inspire future interests, intentions, or the desire for fresh goals. Even repositioning our existing paintings, prints and photographs can revitalise a home and feel like a new start. Artfully Walls Art that is carefully chosen and displayed can help pull the look of a room together (Credit: Artfully Walls) Imaginatively chosen and displayed art can both revive cherished memories and prompt feelings of wellbeing – and it can change the whole ambience of a space. Abstract art, for instance, evokes mood...