Strong Storms today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 92 Humidity. 18 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from East.

On August 8, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of dense plumes of smoke streaming from dozens of large fires in the Northwest Territories. via NASA https://ift.tt/Z4qawYn

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle

The Sun is not the quiet place it seems. It expels an unsteady stream of energetic electrons and protons known as the solar wind. These charged particles deform the Earth’s magnetosphere, change paths, and collide with atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, causing the generation of light in auroras like that visible in green in the image […]

PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 87 Humidity. 19 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

While wearing clean room suits, the Artemis II crew members check out their Orion crew module inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/39aCTKb

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.” – Adlai Stevenson I

“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.” – Henry Kissinger

The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with a deep exposure in infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become […]