Why would the sky look like a giant target? Airglow. Following a giant thunderstorm over Bangladesh in late April, giant circular ripples of glowing air appeared over Tibet, China, as pictured here. The unusual pattern is created by atmospheric gravity waves, waves of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, […]
Rain today! With a high of 7C and a low of 7C. 84 Humidity. 6 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!” – Lord Byron
“Art depends on luck and talent.” – Francis Ford Coppola
When the Artemis 1 mission’s Orion spacecraft makes its November 21 powered flyby of the Moon, denizens of planet Earth will see the Moon in a waning crescent phase. The spacecraft will approach to within about 130 kilometers of the lunar surface on its way to a distant retrograde orbit some 70,000 kilometers beyond the […]
Showers today! With a high of 8C and a low of 8C. 93 Humidity. 7 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/dK9lxVE
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.” – Judy Garland
“I realize that every picture isn’t a work of art.” – Conrad Hall
The protostar within dark cloud L1527 is a mere 100,000 years old, still embedded in the cloud of gas and dust that feeds its growth. In this NIRCam image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the dark band at the neck of the infrared nebula is a thick disk that surrounds the young stellar object. […]