A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in this photo from the late 1950s. via NASA https://ift.tt/r2O6BWc
“Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.” – Bjork
“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.” – Alexander Pope
Under dark and mostly moonless night skies, many denizens of planet Earth were able to watch this year’s Perseid meteor shower. Seen from a grassy hillside from Shiraz, Iran these Perseid meteors streak along the northern summer Milky Way before dawn on Sunday, August 13. Frames used to construct the composited image were captured near […]
PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 31C and a low of 31C. 79 Humidity. 19 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
In this image from July 18, 2023, a NASA team helps attach solar arrays for the agency’s Psyche spacecraft onto a stand inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/5d69QCW
“When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.” – Jean Ingelow
“The best artists know what to leave out.” – Charles de Lint
It came from outer space. It — in this case a sand-sized bit of a comet nucleus — was likely ejected many years ago from Sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle, but then continued to orbit the Sun alone. When the Earth crossed through this orbit, the piece of comet debris impacted the atmosphere of our fair planet […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 83 Humidity. 18 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Northeast.