Earlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament’s full extent was estimated to be over half of the Sun’s radius — more than 350,000 kilometers long. A filament is composed of hot gas held aloft by the […]
Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 73 Humidity. 13 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. via NASA https://ift.tt/7YIs2TW
What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35 years ago: red sprites. Research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 percent […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 24C and a low of 24C. 82 Humidity. 12 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth — one Earth rotation — […]
AM Showers today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 90 Humidity. 14 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
This 180 degree panoramic night skyscape captures our Milky Way Galaxy as it arcs above the horizon on a winter’s night in August. Near midnight, the galactic center is close to the zenith with the clear waters of Lake Traful, Neuquen, Argentina, South America, planet Earth below. Zodiacal light, dust reflected sunlight along the Solar […]
Rain today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 91 Humidity. 13 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe. via NASA https://ift.tt/oRVGYef