Thunderstorms today! With a high of 15C and a low of 15C. 88 Humidity. 13 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern […]

Rain/Wind today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 91 Humidity. 14 C currently. 29 Km/h Wind from South.

The inaugural murals for the relaunched NASA Art Program appear side-by-side at 350 Hudson Street, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in New York City. The murals, titled “To the Moon, and Back,” were created by New York-based artist team Geraluz and WERC and use geometrical patterns to invite deeper reflection on the exploration, creativity, and connection […]

AM Showers today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 84 Humidity. 14 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is now visible in the early morning sky. Diving into the inner Solar System at an odd angle, this large dirty iceberg will pass its closest to the Sun — between the orbits of Mercury and Venus — in just two days. Long camera exposures are now capturing C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), sometimes abbreviated […]

STS-128 mission specialist José Hernández waits his turn to enter space shuttle Discovery at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background are mission specialists Patrick Forrester (left) and Christer Fuglesang (back to camera). via NASA https://ift.tt/dgrWjqf

This dusty region is forming stars. Part of a sprawling molecular cloud complex that resembles, to some, a rampaging baboon, the region is a relatively close by 500 light-years away toward the constellation Corona Australis. That’s about one third the distance of the more famous stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. Mixed with bright […]

AM Light Rain today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 95 Humidity. 13 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from South.

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is seen smiling and holding a gifted matryoshka doll outside the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after she landed with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Dyson is returning to Earth after logging 184 days in […]