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Showers today!

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sun Apr 28 2024

Showers today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 69 Humidity. 11 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from South.

All Sky Moon Shadow

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sat Apr 27 2024

If the Sun is up but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around, you might be standing in the Moon’s shadow during a total eclipse of the Sun. In fact, the all-sky Moon shadow shown in this composited panoramic view was captured from a farm near Shirley, Arkansas, planet Earth. The […]

Hubble Spots a Magnificent Barred Galaxy

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Apr 26 2024

The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, this barred spiral galaxy is a similar size to our Milky Way at 100,000 light-years across. […]

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy

By iftttauthorways4eu on Fri Apr 26 2024

In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning star that is known to be part of a multiple […]

Navigating the Moon with Art

By iftttauthorways4eu on Thu Apr 25 2024

Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. via NASA https://ift.tt/026PnCu

NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery

By iftttauthorways4eu on Thu Apr 25 2024

Located some 3 million light-years away in the arms of nearby spiral galaxy M33, giant stellar nursery NGC 604 is about 1,300 light-years across. That’s nearly 100 times the size of the Milky Way’s Orion Nebula, the closest large star forming region to planet Earth. In fact, among the star forming regions within the Local […]

Tracking Spring Flooding

By iftttauthorways4eu on Wed Apr 24 2024

Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows Orenburg on April 13, the day river levels peaked. This scene was acquired by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9. via NASA https://ift.tt/pMq27vu

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