Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 92 Humidity. 6 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above northern Mexico, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth while a green atmospheric glow crowned the horizon. via NASA https://ift.tt/Qd8eaDr

This spectacular intergalactic skyscape features Arp 227, a curious system of galaxies from the 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Some 100 million light-years distant within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists of the two galaxies prominent above and left of center, the shell galaxy NGC 474 and its blue, spiral-armed neighbor NGC […]

Mostly Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 93 Humidity. 7 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits in its run stall at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, firing up its engine for the first time. These engine-run tests start at low power and allow the X-59 team to verify the aircraft’s systems are working together while powered by its own engine. The […]

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is now headed back to the outer Solar System. The massive dusty snowball put on quite a show during its trip near the Sun, resulting in many impressive pictures from planet Earth during October. The featured image was taken in mid-October and shows a defining visual feature of the comet — its impressive […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 100 Humidity. 7 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

“[Now that I work for Safety and Mission Assurance,] it’s really cool to read everything about the different types of the scenarios. I always get to see the task orders and the type of work that is going on to keep people safe on the ground and in the air.” — Miranda Meyer, Contract Specialist, […]

Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 900 large stone statues called moais exist there. The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moais stand, on average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. It is thought that the […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 91 Humidity. 6 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.