AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 97 Humidity. 16 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Construction of the world’s largest wind tunnel and its original 40- by 80-foot test section. A later expansion created an additional 80- by 120-foot test section. A Navy blimp, which would have been based at Hangars 2 and 3 at Moffett Field, patrols in the background. via NASA https://ift.tt/HRTECVy

About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million light-years distant it is nearby though. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from our perspective, it dominates this telescopic field of view toward the southern constellation Cetus. The pronounced void on one side of the […]

PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 95 Humidity. 18 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

In this image, PPE engineers successfully tested the integration of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s thruster with Maxar’s power procession unit and Xenon Flow Controller. via NASA https://ift.tt/kE0IF3H

Can you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky toward the constellation […]

Rain today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 89 Humidity. 19 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean in between Australia and Antarctica. via NASA https://ift.tt/TG9M86i

Nine days ago, two quite different sky icons were imaged rising together. Specifically, Earth’s Moon shared the eastern sky with the sister stars of the Pleiades cluster, as viewed from Alberta, Canada. Astronomical images of the well-known Pleiades often show the star cluster’s alluring blue reflection nebulas, but here they are washed-out by the orange […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 96 Humidity. 18 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.