Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 76 Humidity. -1 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-spectral frames to approximate what the human eye would see was challenging. The result featured here, released three years after […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 87 Humidity. -1 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

A popular name for January’s full moon in the northern hemisphere is the Full Wolf Moon. As the new year’s first full moon, it rises over Las Campanas Observatory in this dramatic Earth-and-moonscape. Peering from the foreground like astronomical eyes are the observatory’s twin 6.5 meter diameter Magellan telescopes. The snapshot was captured with telephoto […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 7C and a low of 7C. 92 Humidity. -1 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Epsilon Tauri lies 146 light-years away. A K-type red giant star, epsilon Tau is cooler than the Sun, but with about 13 times the solar radius it has nearly 100 times the solar luminosity. A member of the Hyades open star cluster the giant star is known by the proper name Ain, and along with […]

Rain today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 89 Humidity. 9 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

From left to right, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy of Israel Eliav Benjamin, place wreaths at the Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial during a ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. […]

You might not immediately recognize this street map of a neighborhood in Jyväskylä, Finland, planet Earth. But that’s probably because the map was projected into the night sky and captured with an allsky camera on January 16. The temperature recorded on that northern winter night was around minus 20 degrees Celsius. As ice crystals formed […]

Light Rain today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 91 Humidity. 8 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Southwest.