Friday, October 28, 2022

Webb Reveals New Details in Pillars of Creation


Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region. https://ift.tt/s1Upx3K

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 86F and a low of 61F.

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Lucy Spots Earth and Moon


On Oct. 13, 2022, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the Moon from 890,000 miles (1.4 million km) away. https://ift.tt/2vZJSQd

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 85F and a low of 61F.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Mapping the Entire Night Sky


This mosaic is composed of images covering the entire sky, taken by the ​Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part of WISE’s 2012 All-Sky Data Release. https://ift.tt/J5jauN9

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 86F and a low of 62F.

Monday, October 24, 2022

Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow


During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022. https://ift.tt/WhTgtRE

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 85F and a low of 63F.

Friday, October 21, 2022

IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains


When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way. https://ift.tt/L2dr4XR

Mostly Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 84F and a low of 65F.

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Crew-4 Members Pose for Pre-Return Photo


NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission. https://ift.tt/EyLtAir

PM Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 84F and a low of 70F.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Aerial Leaf Peeping in Adirondack Park


Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on Oct. 8, 2022. https://ift.tt/fRObzwY

PM Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 85F and a low of 71F.

Monday, October 17, 2022

Safe Return for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts


After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. https://ift.tt/WEe4RsI

Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 84F and a low of 71F.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Greetings from the Cupola


Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola. https://ift.tt/E3jhTMq

Scattered Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 83F and a low of 71F.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Sun Rings in New Month with Strong Flare


The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022. https://ift.tt/7v2eMTm

Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 82F and a low of 71F.

Friday, October 7, 2022

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission Casts Long Exposure Light Beam


In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). https://ift.tt/UwbT0ly

Scattered Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 81F and a low of 69F.

Solid Science from Serena Auñón-Chancellor


Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this image from Nov. 27, 2018. https://ift.tt/VQRZT1v

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Astronaut Nicole Mann Trains in T-38


Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018. https://ift.tt/PcOyYUv

PM Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 85F and a low of 72F.

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Staring Into the Hurricane's Eye


On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa. https://ift.tt/80Wq9f4

PM Thunderstorms tomorrow!



With a high of 86F and a low of 71F.

Monday, October 3, 2022

DART’s Penultimate View


This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact. https://ift.tt/ZNrfepI

Partly Cloudy tomorrow!



With a high of 88F and a low of 71F.