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My quaint space by the fireplace. At ease, and hope you stumble upon something interesting.

Artist Showcase: Janine Gallizia

Highly recognised international artist, juror, teacher, organiser of international art shows, Art Director of the The Art of Watercolour magazine and personal advisor to artists and art societies, Janine has won many awards for her paintings and she has gained a reputation as being an artist’s artist.
Artist portrait
Artist portrait
Venetian Silhouette Artist portrait
Venetian Silhouette — Watercolor

A professional artist, international judge, teacher, organiser of international exhibitions, artistic director of the magazine The Art of Watercolour and personal adviser to artists and art societies, Janine has won numerous awards for her paintings and gained a reputation as an artist, offering her help, knowledge and advice to others.

Having lived on three continents, in 5 countries, in contact with thousands of artists from all over the world, she now wishes to share her experience with as many people as possible, with the aim of creating an inspiring, stimulating and effective environment for all those who want to make progress with their painting.

Bookshelf

Currently reading & recently finished books, pulled from my personal shelf.
1984 George Orwell — Reading
A History of Ancient and Medieval India Upinder Singh — Reading
Absolute Batman Scott Snyder — Reading
Absolute Flash Jeff Lemire — Reading
Absolute Green Lantern Al Ewing — Reading
The Department of Truth James Tynion IV — Finished
Batman: Full Moon Rodney Barnes — Finished
Dark Knights of Steel Tom Taylor — Finished
Dreams of a Final Theory Steven Weinberg — Finished
Into the Unbeing Zac Thompson — Finished

Space Showcase: NASA APOD - Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center

Do you see that blue blob to the lower right of the image center? Astronomers think that it shows where a massive star exploded as a supernova whose light reached Earth 1,700 years ago.
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Courtesy: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCLA/Z. Zhu et al.; ESA/XMM-Newton; Optical: PanSTARRS; Radio: MeerKAT; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and P. Edmonds Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) · 2026-06-18

The image combines optical data from the PanSTARRS telescopes in Hawaii (background stars in red, green, and blue), radio from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa (large red cloud) and X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton (shown in blue). The large cloud is a star forming region called Sagittarius C, which is approximately 50 light-years in extent and about 26,000 light-years from Earth. It is located only about 260 light-years from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Galaxy (off to the left of the image). If the blue blob is confirmed to be a supernova remnant, it would be one of the closest ever discovered to the Galactic Center. In this dense region, the deaths of massive stars are connected to the birth of new stars through gas and magnetic fields in a complex way..