Mario Livioさんのイラストまとめ

Today is February 15. #OTD (or the 16th, according to some sources) in 1564 GALILEO GALILEI was born. He said that he did not think “that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use.”

The intricate structure of the colorful Lagoon Nebula. This vast stellar nursery is located about four thousand light-years away. It is being sculpted by radiation and powerful winds from the young, massive star Herschel 36, which has a mass exceeding thirty solar masses.

Today is May 28. #OTD in 1930, astronomer Frank Drake was born. He is involved in the search for extraterrestrial life. Also #OTD in 2003, chemist Ilya Prigogine passed away. His work on non equilibrium thermodynamics connects life to physics and chemistry.