Thunderstorms today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 96 Humidity. 18 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into a […]

Last April’s Full Moon shines through high clouds near the horizon, casting shadows in this garden-at-night skyscape. Along with canine sentinel Sandy watching the garden gate, the wide-angle snapshot also captured the bright Moon’s 22 degree ice halo. But June’s bright Full Moon will cast shadows too. This month, the Moon’s exact full phase occurs […]

Scattered Thunderstorms today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 92 Humidity. 16 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

Do dragons fight on the altar of the sky? Although it might appear that way, these dragons are illusions made of thin gas and dust. The emission nebula NGC 6188, home to the glowing clouds, is found about 4,000 light years away near the edge of a large molecular cloud, unseen at visible wavelengths, in […]

Scattered Thunderstorms today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 86 Humidity. 19 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from South.

This image of Galveston was taken on Nov. 23, 2022, from the International Space Station as it orbited 224 miles above Earth. While President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, word that enslaved people were free did not reach Galveston until well into 1865. When Union troops arrived that year to share the […]

Yes, but can your thunderstorm do this? Pictured here are gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm last week toward the Himalayan Mountains in China and Bhutan. The composite image captured four long jets that occurred only minutes apart. Gigantic jets, documented only in this century, are a type of lightning discharge that occurs between […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 29C and a low of 29C. 90 Humidity. 14 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“I feel that my larger purpose at NASA, which I’ve felt since I came on as an intern, is to leave NASA a better place than I found it.” — Mallory Carbon, Management and Program Analyst, NASA Headquarters via NASA https://ift.tt/OVPSZHn