Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 96 Humidity. 10 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from South.

Joylette Hylick, left, and Katherine Moore, daughters of Katherine Johnson, accept the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of Katherine Johnson from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a ceremony recognizing NASA’s Hidden Figures, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. via NASA https://ift.tt/szq32MF

For northern hemisphere dwellers, September’s Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. On September 17/18 the sunlit lunar nearside passed into shadow, just grazing Earth’s umbra, the planet’s dark, central shadow cone, in a partial lunar eclipse. Over the two and half hours before dawn a camera fixed to a tripod was used to record this […]

Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 92 Humidity. 11 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Spanning light-years, this suggestive shape known as the Seahorse Nebula floats in silhouette against a rich, luminous background of stars. Seen toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus, the dusty, dark nebula is part of a Milky Way molecular cloud some 1,200 light-years distant. It is also listed as Barnard 150 (B150), one of 182 […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 72 Humidity. 14 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the southern constellation Telescopium. Hubble beautifully captures its faint halo and swirling disk filled with stars and dust bands. via NASA https://ift.tt/1tkCeag

New stars are born from the remnants of deadstars. The gaseous remnant of the gravitational collapse and subsequent death of a very massive star in our Milky Way created the G296.5+10.0supernova remnant, of which the featured Mermaid Nebula is part. Also known as the Betta Fish Nebula, the Mermaid Nebula makes up part of an […]

Sunny today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 89 Humidity. 14 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

“I would say family and part of that ‘first-gen experience’ [shaped me]…It shaped me to be a hard worker and to aspire to large things because not only was it my goal at this point, but it was also my parents’ aspiration.” – Zaida Hernandez, Engineer, Lunar Architecture Team, NASA’s Johnson Space Center via NASA […]