“Anyone you see on the streets, their color or background doesn’t matter; we all come into this world the same way. You’re equipped with skills, so find your passion and go for it.” – Dr. Charles Gatebe, Chief of Atmospheric Science Branch, NASA’s Ames Research Center via NASA https://ift.tt/Dfitlce
How does the sky turn dark at night? In stages, and with different characteristic colors rising from the horizon. The featured image shows, left to right, increasingly late twilight times after sunset in 20 different vertical bands. The picture was taken last month in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, in the direction opposite the Sun. On the […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 95 Humidity. 4 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
A female (left) and a male roseate spoonbill get together near the tall grasses at the edge of a pond in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, northwest of Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spoonbills inhabit areas of mangrove such as on the coasts of southern Florida and Texas. These birds feed on shrimps and […]
It’s easy to get lost following the intricate, looping, and twisting filaments of supernova remnant Simeis 147. Also cataloged as Sharpless 2-240, the filamentary nebula goes by the popular nickname the Spaghetti Nebula. Seen toward the boundary of the constellations of the Bull (Taurus) and the Charioteer (Auriga), the impressive gas structure covers nearly 3 […]
Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 83 Humidity. 7 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense aboard the USS San Diego practice recovery procedures during Underway Recovery Test 11 (URT-11) off the coast of San Diego on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. The team works to secure the Crew Module Test Article and align it […]
AM Light Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 94 Humidity. 6 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet September night, much of that night’s auroras had died down. Suddenly, unexpectedly, a new burst of particles streamed down from space, lighting up the Earth’s atmosphere once again. This time, surprisingly, pareidoliacally, the night lit up with an […]
AM Light Rain today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 71 Humidity. 4 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.