PM Rain today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 99 Humidity. 4 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth’s Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 100 Humidity. 6 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

Ice giant Neptune is faint in Earth’s night sky. Some 30 times farther from the Sun than our fair planet, telescopes are needed to catch a glimpse of the dim and distant world. This dramatic view of Neptune’s night just isn’t possible for telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth though. Peering out from the […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 10C and a low of 10C. 88 Humidity. 7 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from East.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the spiral galaxy NGC 1672 with a supernova. via NASA https://ift.tt/8lMq7vt

Drifting near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy these dusty molecular clouds seem to extend a helping hand on a cosmic scale. Part of a local complex of star-forming interstellar clouds they include LDN 1358, 1357, and 1355 from American astronomer Beverly Lynds’ 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae. Presenting a challenging target for astro-imagers, […]

Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 92 Humidity. 6 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above northern Mexico, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth while a green atmospheric glow crowned the horizon. via NASA https://ift.tt/Qd8eaDr

This spectacular intergalactic skyscape features Arp 227, a curious system of galaxies from the 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Some 100 million light-years distant within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists of the two galaxies prominent above and left of center, the shell galaxy NGC 474 and its blue, spiral-armed neighbor NGC […]