This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact. via NASA https://ift.tt/ShiPrlT

What mysteries might be solved by peering into this crystal ball? In this case, the ball is actually a moon of Jupiter, the crystals are ice, and the moon is not only dirty but cracked beyond repair. Nevertheless, speculation is rampant that oceans exist under Europa’s fractured ice-plains that could support life. Europa, roughly the […]

AM Clouds/PM Sun today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 99 Humidity. 8 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” – Alfred Eisenstaedt

What could shoot out a neutron star like a cannon ball? A supernova. About 10,000 years ago, the supernova that created the nebular remnant CTB 1 not only destroyed a massive star but blasted its newly formed neutron star core — a pulsar — out into the Milky Way Galaxy. The pulsar, spinning 8.7 times […]

Rain today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 85 Humidity. 13 C currently. 14 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Observe the Moon every night and you’ll see its visible sunlit portion gradually change. In phases progressing from New Moon to Full Moon to New Moon again, a lunar cycle or lunation is completed in about 29.5 days. Top left to bottom right, this 7×4 matrix of telescopic images captures the range of lunar phases […]

Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 79 Humidity. 9 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

A planet-wide collaboration resulted in this remarkable array of sunrise photographs taken around the September 2022 equinox. The images were contributed by 24 photographers, one in each of 24 nautical time zones around the world. Unlike more complicated civil time zone boundaries, the 24 nautical time zones are simply 15 degree longitude bands corresponding to […]