“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Posing as a brilliant evening star, Venus lies near the western horizon in this southern hemisphere, early spring, night skyscape. To create the composite view exposures tracking the sky and fixed for the foreground were taken on September 25 from Cascavel in southern Brazil. In view after sunset, Venus appears immersed in a cone of […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 20C and a low of 20C. 79 Humidity. 13 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

Before NASA could send humans to space, the agency needed to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. via NASA https://ift.tt/39VA17l

“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.” – Augustus Hare

Dark markings and colorful clouds inhabit this stellar landscape. The deep and expansive view spans more than 30 full moons across crowded star fields toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Cataloged in the early 20th century by astronomer E. E. Barnard, the obscuring interstellar dust clouds seen toward the right include B59, B72, […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 20C and a low of 20C. 74 Humidity. 7 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

Pedro Cota is a video producer for NASA en español the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. via NASA https://ift.tt/3D1a7eM

“Autumn’s the mellow time.” – William Allingham

Gorgeous spiral galaxy M33 seems to have more than its fair share of glowing hydrogen gas. A prominent member of the local group of galaxies, M33 is also known as the Triangulum Galaxy and lies a mere 3 million light-years away. Sprawling along loose spiral arms that wind toward the core, M33’s giant HII regions […]