Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Znm6Kr
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
The southernmost part of the Milky Way contains not only the stars of the Southern Cross, but the closest star system to our Sun — Alpha Centauri. The Southern Cross itself is topped by the bright, yellowish star Gamma Crucis. A line from Gamma Crucis through the blue star at the bottom of the cross, […]
Sunny today! With a high of 20C and a low of 20C. 50 Humidity. 8 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.
“I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” – Michael Kennedy
Why would the surface of Titan light up with a blinding flash? The reason: a sunglint from liquid seas. Saturn’s moon Titan has numerous smooth lakes of methane that, when the angle is right, reflect sunlight as if they were mirrors. Pictured here in false-color, the robotic Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to […]
Sunny today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 44 Humidity. 9 C currently. 13 Km/h Wind from East.
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.” – Jim Fowler
Sunny today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 47 Humidity. 8 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015 when the spacecraft was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about […]