Showers today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 90 Humidity. 6 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

What’s that over the horizon? What may look like a strangely nearby galaxy is actually a normal rocket’s exhaust plume — but unusually backlit. Although the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, its burned propellant was visible over a much wider area, with the featured photograph being taken from […]

The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun at the point of the maximum of the partial solar eclipse near Banner, Wyoming on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 87 Humidity. 5 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

What glows in the night? This night featured a combination of usual and unusual glows. Perhaps the most usual glow was from the Moon, a potentially familiar object. The full Moon’s nearly vertical descent results from the observer being near Earth’s equator. As the Moon sets, air and aerosols in Earth’s atmosphere preferentially scatter out […]

Would you go to the end of the world to see a total eclipse of the Sun? If you did, would you be surprised to find someone else there already? In 2003, the Sun, the Moon, Antarctica, and two photographers all lined up in Antarctica during an unusual total solar eclipse. Even given the extreme […]

PM Rain today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 67 Humidity. 7 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

As spring approaches for northern skygazers Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. Currently visible with small telescopes and binoculars the Halley-type comet could reach naked eye visibility in the coming weeks. Seen despite a foggy atmosphere, the comet’s green coma and long tail hover near the horizon, in this well-composed deep night skyscape from Revuca, Slovakia […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 76 Humidity. 6 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from East.

This image shows two types of sand dunes on Mars. The small dots are called barchan dunes, and from their shape we can tell that they are upwind. The downwind dunes are long and linear. These two types of dune each show the wind direction in different ways: the barchans have a steep slope and […]