Chirag Parikh, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council, left, and NASA Astronauts Frank Rubio, center, and Marcos Berrios, right, speak at a staff engagement event that took place during a White House Hispanic Heritage month on Sept. 30, 2024. via NASA https://ift.tt/CW2plDu
The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon’s shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, crossing land near the southern tip of South America, and ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic total annular […]
Cloudy today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 100 Humidity. 7 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
It is the largest satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way Galaxy. If you live in the south, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is quite noticeable, spanning about 10 degrees across the night sky, which is 20 times larger than the full moon towards the southern constellation of the dolphinfish (Dorado). Being only about 160,000 […]
Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 100 Humidity. 10 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“This is why [Aubrey Gemignani] and I started Faces of NASA: We wanted to make that connection. It’s not just rockets, astronauts, and telescopes. Hundreds of thousands of people come together to make these missions possible, and that’s the part that’s really interesting for me.” – Thalia Patrinos, Communications Strategist, PCI Productions, NASA Headquarters via […]
How far can black hole jets extend? A new record was found just recently with the discovery of a 23-million light-year long jet pair from a black hole active billions of years ago. Dubbed Porphyrion for a mythological Greek giant, the impressive jets were created by a type of black hole that does not usually […]
PM Showers today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 81 Humidity. 14 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
The new comet has passed its closest to the Sun and is now moving closer to the Earth. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is currently moving out from inside the orbit of Venus and on track to pass its nearest to the Earth in about two weeks. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, pronounced “Choo-cheen-shahn At-less,”, is near naked-eye visibility and […]
Showers today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 97 Humidity. 8 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.