This timelapse gif tracks the James Webb Space Telescope as it streaks across the stars of Orion on its journey to a destination beyond the Moon. Recorded on December 28, 12 consecutive exposures each 10 minutes long were aligned and combined with a subsequent color image of the background stars to create the animation. About […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 14C and a low of 14C. 85 Humidity. 9 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
This composite image made from seven frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, in silhouette as it transits the Sun. via NASA https://ift.tt/3h8GYVM
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke
“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.” – Oscar Wilde
Comet Leonard, brightest comet of 2021, is at the lower left of these two panels captured on December 29 in dark Atacama desert skies. Heading for its perihelion on January 3 Comet Leonard’s visible tail has grown. Stacked exposures with a wide angle lens (also displayed in a reversed B/W scheme for contrast), trace the […]
Light Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 90 Humidity. 13 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
What and where are these large ovals? They are rotating storm clouds on Jupiter imaged last month by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. In general, higher clouds are lighter in color, and the lightest clouds visible are the relatively small clouds that dot the lower oval. At 50 kilometers across, however, even these light clouds are not […]