Backdropped against the blue and white Earth 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee tests the new Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system on Sept. 16, 1994. via NASA https://ift.tt/bCmfxLE
When can you see a black hole, a tulip, and a swan all at once? At night — if the timing is right, and if your telescope is pointed in the right direction. The complex and beautiful Tulip Nebula blossoms about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. Ultraviolet radiation from young […]
Sunny today! With a high of 29C and a low of 29C. 90 Humidity. 16 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
The Pegasus Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI, is one of at least 13 dwarf galaxies that orbit the Andromeda galaxy. via NASA https://ift.tt/whI7cjP
What if Saturn disappeared? Sometimes, it does. It doesn’t really go away, though, it just disappears from view when our Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible along a long swath of Earth — from Peru, across the Atlantic Ocean, to Italy — only a few days […]
Sunny today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 87 Humidity. 13 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Northeast.
When this picture was taken in July 1994, Dr. Irene Duhart Long was director of the Biomedical Operations and Research Office at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She was responsible for the program management of the center’s aerospace and occupational medicine, life sciences research, environmental health programs, and the operations management of the life […]
Did you see it? One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for a meteor to flash is similar to the time it takes for a head to turn. Possibly, though, the glory of seeing bright meteors shoot across the sky — while knowing that they were […]
Mostly Sunny today! With a high of 23C and a low of 23C. 87 Humidity. 11 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from East.
Do underground oceans vent through canyons on Saturn’s moon Enceladus? Long features dubbed tiger stripes are known to be spewing ice from the moon’s icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon’s South Pole and creating Saturn’s mysterious E-ring. Evidence for this has come from the robot Cassini spacecraft […]