Rain today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 94 Humidity. 15 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from South.

Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical “golden” records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. This gold aluminum cover was designed to protect the gold-plated records from micrometeorite bombardment, but also serves a double purpose in providing the finder a key to playing the record. via NASA https://ift.tt/YUG7tCQ

A bright comet is moving into the evening skies. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has brightened and even though it is now easily visible to the unaided eye, it is so near to the Sun that it is still difficult to see. Pictured, Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS was captured just before sunrise from an Andes Mountain in Peru. Braving […]

Light Rain today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 97 Humidity. 13 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from South.

Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, grew a spectacularly long and filamentary tail. The magnificent tail spread across the sky and was visible for several days to Southern Hemisphere observers just after sunset. The amazing ion tail showed its greatest extent on long-duration, wide-angle camera exposures. During some times, just the tail itself was […]

Cloudy today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 97 Humidity. 5 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

While hunting for comets in the skies above 18th century France, astronomer Charles Messier diligently kept a list of the things encountered during his telescopic expeditions that were definitely not comets. This is number 27 on his now famous not-a-comet list. In fact, 21st century astronomers would identify it as a planetary nebula, but it’s […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 100 Humidity. 7 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Northeast.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photo of large meanders of the Alabama River while orbiting over the southern United States. The river’s smooth water surface reflects sunlight back toward the astronaut’s camera, producing an optical phenomenon known as sunglint. via NASA https://ift.tt/5MNohqD

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is growing brighter in planet Earth’s sky. Fondly known as comet A3, this new visitor to the inner Solar System is traveling from the distant Oort cloud. The comet reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, on September 27 and will reach perigee, its closest to our fair planet, on […]