Yes, but can your volcano do this? To the surprise of some, Mt. Etna emits, on occasion, smoke rings. Technically known as vortex rings, the walls of the volcano slightly slow the outside of emitted smoke puffs, causing the inside gas to move faster. A circle of low pressure develops so that the emitted puff […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 84 Humidity. 2 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter. NASA’s robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its now month-long, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System’s largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. Each perijove passes near a slightly different part of Jupiter’s cloud tops. […]
Snow to Rain today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 98 Humidity. 3 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
When the dark shadow of the Moon raced across North America on April 8, sky watchers along the shadow’s narrow central path were treated to a total solar eclipse. During the New Moon’s shadow play diamonds glistened twice in the eclipse-darkened skies. The transient celestial jewels appeared immediately before and after the total eclipse phase. […]
Showers today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 90 Humidity. 4 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds from bright, hot young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust. via NASA https://ift.tt/iSaZpxP
A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula is more modestly known as NGC 3372. One of our Galaxy’s largest star forming regions, it spans over 300 light-years. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is easily visible to the unaided eye. But at a distance of 7,500 light-years […]
Rain today! With a high of 7C and a low of 7C. 86 Humidity. 5 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
The ocean holds about 97 percent of Earth’s water and covers 70 percent of our planet’s surface. According to the United Nations, the ocean may be home to 50 to 80 percent of all life on Earth. Even if you live hundreds of miles from a coast, what happens in the ocean is fundamental to […]