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PM Thunderstorms today!

By iftttauthorways4eu on Wed Aug 14 2024

PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 27C and a low of 27C. 85 Humidity. 19 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from South.

Earth’s Crest Over the Lunar Horizon

By iftttauthorways4eu on Tue Aug 13 2024

This view of the Earth’s crest over the lunar horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Apollo 15 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on July 26, 1971. Aboard was a crew of three astronauts: David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden. The primary scientific objectives were to observe […]

By iftttauthorways4eu on Tue Aug 13 2024

What’s that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth’s edge: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears on the left of the featured image in red and blue. Giant jet lightning has only been […]

Webb Sees Gassy Baby Stars

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon Aug 12 2024

In this image of the Serpens Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a grouping of aligned protostellar outflows within one small region (the top left corner). Serpens is a reflection nebula, which means it’s a cloud of gas and dust that does not create its own light, but instead shines by reflecting […]

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon Aug 12 2024

What’s happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year’s Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame. Although the meteors all traveled on straight paths, these paths appear slightly curved by the […]

The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sat Aug 10 2024

Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astronomical nebulae; red emission nebulae dominated by light from hydrogen atoms, blue reflection nebulae produced by dust reflecting […]

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