“I’ve come a long way from thinking, ‘Well, I did this whole dissertation on geysers, what it would take for them to erupt, for a spacecraft to see them, and that people might not take me seriously as a scientist because of it,’ to being on the Europa Clipper camera team involved in investigating these […]
Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 91 Humidity. 6 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Across the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster lies a string of galaxies known as Markarian’s Chain. Prominent in Markarian’s Chain are these two interacting galaxies, NGC 4438 (left) and NGC 4435 – also known as The Eyes. About 50 million light-years away, the two galaxies appear to be about 100,000 light-years apart in this […]
Gemini VI astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), pilot, and Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot, are shown during suiting up exercises at Cape Kennedy, Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/pd4MkaX
AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 98 Humidity. 6 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
What’s that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east-west, and on two days each year, the Sun rises and sets right down the middle. Today, in some parts of the world (tomorrow in others), is one of those days: an equinox. Not only is this a day […]
A bright comet will be visible during next month’s total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks’s return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth’s April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to […]
Light Rain today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 93 Humidity. 9 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Cloudy today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 92 Humidity. 5 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Showers today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 95 Humidity. 9 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.