The early morning planet parade continues. Visible the world over, the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn have been lining up in the pre-dawn sky since mid-April. In the featured image taken last month, these planets were captured over the Step Pyramid of Djoser, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Saqqara necropolis of […]
Thunderstorms today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 80 Humidity. 9 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
May 2-6, 2022, is Teacher Appreciation Week! At NASA, we know the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. via NASA https://ift.tt/WNhYUT5
“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” – Malcolm de Chazal
“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 […]