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 […]
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. About 180 thousand light-years away, it’s the largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole Local Group of galaxies. The cosmic arachnid sprawls across […]
Sunny today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 84 Humidity. 1 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Excellent view of the docked Apollo 9 command and service modules (CSM) and lunar module (LM), with Earth in the background, during astronaut David R. Scott’s stand-up spacewalk, on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. Scott, command module pilot, is standing in the open hatch of the command module. Astronaut Russell L. […]
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein