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 […]
What will happen as this already bright comet approaches? Optimistic predictions have Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) briefly becoming easily visible to the unaided eye — although the future brightness of comets are notoriously hard to predict, and this comet may even break up in warming sunlight. What is certain is that the comet is now […]
Showers today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 96 Humidity. 15 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Chicago, in a way, is like a modern Stonehenge. The way is east to west, and the time is today. Today, and every equinox, the Sun will set exactly to the west, everywhere on Earth. Therefore, today in Chicago, the Sun will set directly down the long equatorially-aligned grid of streets and buildings, an event […]
Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 96 Humidity. 11 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
The defining astronomical moment of this September’s equinox is at 12:44 UTC on September 22, when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving south in its yearly journey through planet Earth’s sky. That marks the beginning of fall for our fair planet in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern hemisphere, when day and […]
Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 96 Humidity. 10 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from South.