NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean on July 1, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station, and posted it to X. The Category 4 hurricane had winds of about 130 mph (215 kph). via NASA https://ift.tt/o9CN064
The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies this 5 million year old star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by its birth shell of gas and dust, star cluster NGC 602 is […]
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Saturn and its rings completely fill the field of view of Cassini’s narrow angle camera in this natural color image taken on March 27, 2004. This was the last single “eyeful” of Saturn and its rings achievable with the narrow angle camera on approach to the planet. via NASA https://ift.tt/hUDqzM7
What’s happened since the universe started? The time spiral shown here features a few notable highlights. At the spiral’s center is the Big Bang, the place where time, as we know it, began about 13.8 billion years ago. Within a few billion years atoms formed, then stars formed from atoms, galaxies formed from stars and […]
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About 12 seconds into this video, something unusual happens. The Earth begins to rise. Never seen by humans before, the rise of the Earth over the limb of the Moon occurred about 55.5 years ago and surprised and amazed the crew of Apollo 8. The crew immediately scrambled to take still images of the stunning […]
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Rising opposite the setting Sun, June’s Full Moon occurred within about 28 hours of the solstice. The Moon stays close to the Sun’s path along the ecliptic plane and so while the solstice Sun climbed high in daytime skies, June’s Full Moon remained low that night as seen from northern latitudes. In fact, the Full […]
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