These three panels feature the Solar System’s ruling gas giant Jupiter on August 15 as seen from Cebu City, Phillipines, planet Earth. On that date the well-timed telescopic views detail some remarkable performances, transits and mutual events, by Jupiter’s Galilean moons. In the top panel, Io is just disappearing into Jupiter’s shadow at the far […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 79 Humidity. 16 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Wikipedia article of the day is Candy (Foxy Brown song). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: “Candy” is a song by American rapper Foxy Brown (pictured) featuring Kelis, released by Def Jam on August 21, 2001, as the third single from her third studio album Broken Silence (2001). A dance-pop and R&B track, it was produced by […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 21, 2021: Malachite kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus), near Divava, Namibia, very close to the Botswana border. More Info
The International Space Station was orbiting 263 miles above the southeast coast of Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean into an orbital sunrise. via NASA https://ift.tt/3gh0AY0
“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.” – Francois Rabelais
“I shut my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin
Frames from a camera that spent three moonless nights under the stars create this composite night skyscape. They were recorded during August 11-13 while planet Earth was sweeping through the dusty trail of comet Swift-Tuttle. One long exposure, untracked for the foreground, and the many star tracking captures of Perseid shower meteors were taken from […]
Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 86 Humidity. 17 C currently. 3 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia article of the day is Shuttle-Centaur. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket that could be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle and used to launch satellites into high Earth orbits or probes into deep space. Two variants were produced: Centaur G-Prime, to launch robotic probes […]