Light Rain today! With a high of 5C and a low of 5C. 93 Humidity. 3 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

With the Caribbean Sea and part of the Bahama Islands chain as a backdrop, two STS-51 crewmembers, NASA astronauts James H. Newman (left), and Carl E. Walz, evaluated procedures and gear to be used on an Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-servicing mission. via NASA https://ift.tt/tmxGzsJ

A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That’s twice the size of our own barred spiral Milky Way. This sharp image from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals stunning details of this magnificent spiral in […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 4C and a low of 4C. 81 Humidity. 3 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

Five varieties of seeds provided by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma were pictured inside the cupola on Nov. 21, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. The seeds were exposed to microgravity for several months then returned to Earth and planted next to the same seeds left on Earth […]

How was the Crescent Nebula created? Looking like an emerging space cocoon, the Crescent Nebula, visible in the center of the featured image, was created by the brightest star in its center. A leading progenitor hypothesis has the Crescent Nebula beginning to form about 250,000 years ago. At that time, the massive central star had […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 97 Humidity. 5 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from East.

What created an unusual dark streak in Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas’s tail? Some images of the bright comet during mid-October not only caught its impressively long tail and its thin anti-tail, but a rather unexpected feature: a darkstreakinthelong tail. The reason for the dark streak is currently unclear and a topic of some debate. Possible reasons include […]

PM Rain today! With a high of 6C and a low of 6C. 99 Humidity. 4 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers across, and delves as much as 8 kilometers deep. By comparison, the Earth’s Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA is 800 kilometers long, […]