Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 31C and a low of 31C. 87 Humidity. 16 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Space shuttle Columbia heads skyward after clearing the fixed service structure tower at Launch Complex Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Plant life appears in the foreground. Launch occurred at 12:43 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on July 8, 1994. Once in Earth orbit, STS-65’s six NASA astronauts and a Japanese payload […]

Do other stars have planets like our Sun? Surely they do, and evidence includes slight star wobbles created by the gravity of orbiting exoplanets and slight star dimmings caused by orbiting planets moving in front. In all, there have now been over 5,500 exoplanets discovered, including thousands by NASA’s space-based Kepler and TESS missions, and […]

Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 25C and a low of 25C. 90 Humidity. 12 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

Why are these clouds multi-colored? A relatively rare phenomenon in clouds known as iridescence can bring up unusual colors vividly — or even a whole spectrum of colors simultaneously. These polar stratospheric clouds also, known as nacreous and mother-of-pearl clouds, are formed of small water droplets of nearly uniform size. When the Sun is in […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 97 Humidity. 12 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

Found among the rich starfields of the Milky Way, star cluster NGC 7789 lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. A late 18th century deep sky discovery of astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the cluster is also known as Caroline’s Rose. Its visual appearance in small telescopes, created by the cluster’s complex of stars […]

Rain today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 84 Humidity. 14 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

A glow from the summit of Mount Etna, famous active stratovolcano of planet Earth, stands out along the horizon in this mountain and night skyscape. Bands of diffuse light from congeries of innumerable stars along the Milky Way galaxy stretch across the sky above. In silhouette, the Milky Way’s massive dust clouds are clumped along […]

Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 90 Humidity. 13 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.