What is this person doing? In 2012, an annular eclipse of the Sun was visible over a narrow path that crossed the northern Pacific Ocean and several western US states. In an annular solar eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block out the entire Sun, leaving the Sun peeking out over […]
Sunny today! With a high of 29C and a low of 29C. 87 Humidity. 17 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.” – Edward Young
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” – Gustave Flaubert
Comet Nishimura is growing. More precisely, the tails C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) are growing as it nears the Sun. Discovered only last month, the comet is already near naked eye brightness as it now moves inside the Earth’s orbit. The comet will be nearest the Earth next week, but nearest the Sun the week after — […]
Sunny today! With a high of 28C and a low of 28C. 88 Humidity. 16 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Support teams onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN work to open the hatch of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 4, 2023, with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard. via NASA https://ift.tt/pv7fgIN
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” – Claude Monet
“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” – Edward Gibbon
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this 1/3 degree wide field of view spans over 30 light-years. The sharp composite, color image highlights faint details of the region’s gas and dust clouds against a backdrop […]