What’s that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth’s edge: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears on the left of the featured image in red and blue. Giant jet lightning has only been […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 31C and a low of 31C. 70 Humidity. 22 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.
In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the top left corner). Serpens is a reflection nebula, which means it’s a cloud of gas and dust that does not create its own light, but instead shines by reflecting […]
What’s happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year’s Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame. Although the meteors all traveled on straight paths, these paths appear slightly curved by the […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 33C and a low of 33C. 81 Humidity. 20 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 32C and a low of 32C. 91 Humidity. 18 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection nebulae produced by dust reflecting […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 92 Humidity. 18 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.
The International Space Station’s “window to the world” is pictured from the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module. via NASA https://ift.tt/Ut4cV6B
Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan’s perspective on board the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below, swept up […]