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Showers today!

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon Sep 30 2024

Showers today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 97 Humidity. 8 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sun Sep 29 2024

Is this really the famous Pleiades star cluster? Known for its iconic blue stars, the Pleiades is shown here in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars. Here, three infrared colors have been mapped into visual colors (R=24, G=12, B=4.6 microns). The base images were taken by NASA’s orbiting Wide Field Infrared Survey […]

Rocket Eclipse at Sunset

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sat Sep 28 2024

Shockwaves ripple across the glare as a launch eclipses the setting Sun in this exciting close-up. Captured on September 17, the roaring Falcon 9 rocket carried European Galileo L13 navigation satellites to medium Earth orbit after a lift-off from Cape Canaveral on Florida’s space coast. The Falcon 9 booster returned safely to Earth about 8.5 […]

Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Sep 27 2024

The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic structures, star streams hundreds of […]

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

By iftttauthorways4eu on Thu Sep 26 2024

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern […]

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