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STS-129 Crew Aboard the Space Station

on Wed Nov 20 2024

The STS-129 crew members posed for a portrait following a joint news conference on Nov. 24, 2009, with the Expedition 21 crew members (out of frame) on the International Space Station. Pictured (clockwise) from bottom left are astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, commander; Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert L. Satcher Jr. and Randy Bresnik, all mission […]

Earthset from Orion

on Wed Nov 20 2024

Eight billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon’s bright edge as viewed by an external camera on the outbound Orion spacecraft. Orion was headed for a powered flyby that […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today!

on Wed Nov 20 2024

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 3C and a low of 3C. 94 Humidity. 2 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

On This Day: Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon

on Tue Nov 19 2024

On Nov. 19, 1969, astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, begins to step off the ladder of the lunar module to join astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., mission commander, in a spacewalk. Conrad and Bean descended in the Apollo 12 lunar module to explore the moon while astronaut Richard F. […]

on Tue Nov 19 2024

What’s happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively periodic undulating air currents in […]

Rain/Wind today!

on Tue Nov 19 2024

Rain/Wind today! With a high of 10C and a low of 10C. 90 Humidity. 8 C currently. 31 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

First Nations Launch Winners Watch Crew-7 Launch

on Mon Nov 18 2024

Participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch from the Banana Creek viewing site at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Students and advisors from University of Washington, University of Colorado-Boulder, and an international team from Queens University – this year’s First […]

on Mon Nov 18 2024

Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to […]

Rain today!

on Mon Nov 18 2024

Rain today! With a high of 7C and a low of 7C. 84 Humidity. 6 C currently. 26 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

on Sun Nov 17 2024

What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola. This protostar is experiencing a stellar outflow which is then interacting with the surrounding material in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, causing […]

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