Saturn and its rings completely fill the field of view of Cassini’s narrow angle camera in this natural color image taken on March 27, 2004. This was the last single “eyeful” of Saturn and its rings achievable with the narrow angle camera on approach to the planet. via NASA https://ift.tt/hUDqzM7

What’s happened since the universe started? The time spiral shown here features a few notable highlights. At the spiral’s center is the Big Bang, the place where time, as we know it, began about 13.8 billion years ago. Within a few billion years atoms formed, then stars formed from atoms, galaxies formed from stars and […]

Rain today! With a high of 20C and a low of 20C. 93 Humidity. 13 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from South.

About 12 seconds into this video, something unusual happens. The Earth begins to rise. Never seen by humans before, the rise of the Earth over the limb of the Moon occurred about 55.5 years ago and surprised and amazed the crew of Apollo 8. The crew immediately scrambled to take still images of the stunning […]

Rain today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 87 Humidity. 19 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from South.

Rising opposite the setting Sun, June’s Full Moon occurred within about 28 hours of the solstice. The Moon stays close to the Sun’s path along the ecliptic plane and so while the solstice Sun climbed high in daytime skies, June’s Full Moon remained low that night as seen from northern latitudes. In fact, the Full […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 33C and a low of 33C. 84 Humidity. 19 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from East.

This labyrinth – with a silhouette of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes at its center – is used as a calibration target for the cameras and laser that are part of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals), one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The image was […]

Not a paradox, Comet 13P/Olbers is returning to the inner Solar System after 68 years. The periodic, Halley-type comet will reach its next perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on June 30 and has become a target for binocular viewing low in planet Earth’s northern hemisphere night skies. But this sharp telescopic image of […]

Scattered Thunderstorms today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 90 Humidity. 20 C currently. 10 Km/h Wind from Southwest.