“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.” – Arthur C. Clarke

That’s no comet. Below the Pleiades star cluster is actually a planet: Mercury. Long exposures of our Solar System’s innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury’s thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow when excited by light from the Sun. Sunlight also liberates these molecules from Mercury’s surface and pushes them […]

Thunderstorms today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 75 Humidity. 9 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

Misty Snopkowski is NASA’s program executive for the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program. via NASA https://ift.tt/gUKCY43

“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” – Samuel Butler

What’s happened to the Sun? Two days ago, parts of South America were treated to a partial solar eclipse — where the Moon blocked out part of the Sun. The featured image shows an image of the partially eclipsed Sun through clouds as it was setting over Patagonia, Argentina. In the tilted image, Earth is […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 77 Humidity. 8 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” – Jean Cocteau

What does a black hole look like? To find out, radio telescopes from around the Earth coordinated observations of black holes with the largest known event horizons on the sky. Alone, black holes are just black, but these monster attractors are known to be surrounded by glowing gas. This first image resolves the area around […]