AM Showers today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 95 Humidity. 7 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

On Sept. 21, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope delivered the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years. via NASA https://ift.tt/CIjX65k

Fifteen days before impact, the DART spacecraft deployed a small companion satellite to document its historic planetary defense technology demonstration. Provided by the Italian Space Agency, the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids, aka LICIACube, recorded this image of the event’s aftermath. A cloud of ejecta is seen near the right edge of the frame […]

Showers today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 90 Humidity. 6 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in 2001. via NASA https://ift.tt/VEv0TYQ

Is the sky angry with Mount Shasta? According to some ancient legends, the spirits of above and below worlds fight there, sometimes quite actively during eruptions of this enormous volcano in California, USA. Such drama can well be imagined in this deep sky image taken in late June. Evident above the snow-covered peak is the […]

Rain today! With a high of 12C and a low of 12C. 96 Humidity. 8 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

In this image from Sept. 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheer as they receive confirmation of DART’s collision with Dimorphos. via NASA https://ift.tt/moeUzlh

Could humanity deflect an asteroid headed for Earth? Yes. Deadly impacts from large asteroids have happened before in Earth’s past, sometimes causing mass extinctions of life. To help protect our Earth from some potential future impacts, NASA tested a new planetary defense mechanism yesterday by crashing the robotic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into […]

Rain today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 90 Humidity. 8 C currently. 19 Km/h Wind from Southwest.