26 Apr
I stumbled across this magnificent image online a week or so ago and thought it was worth sharing.
It was taken in Iceland in 2006, when the volcano, Helka, erupted, and the heavens gifted us with an Aurora painting at the same time.
The lucky photographer who captured that shot!
A once in a lifetime photo - and [...]
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22 Apr
This image was one of the first posts I made on this blog over two years ago.
I think it deserves to be posted again in honor of this year’s Earth Day.
It it titled: Earth’s City Lights, and this night time image was comprised in the year 2000.
We are many on this little round ball that [...]
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13 Aug
We had heard for the last couple of nights about the Perseids meteor shower that would be occurring just before dawn in our region.
I had thought about setting the alarm clock so we wouldn’t miss them, but upon giving it some thought, my bladder has a really accurate night-time schedule, and it would have me [...]
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04 Mar
This image is a NASA illustration that shows the space junk that is orbiting the Earth.
When I first saw this image I was totally astounded - I couldn’t believe we had polluted our atmosphere to this degree.
Through the years we had heard off and on about satellites being put into orbit, and of course we [...]
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01 Jul
This composite of the Earth at Night was made from hundreds of pictures taken by the orbiting DMSP satellites on November 27, 2000.
I discovered this image a couple of years ago at the NASA website and was fascinated by it. It’s easy to spot the big cities across the world and the densely [...]
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04 Jun
Ran across this image today while reading about the Space Station.
Gravity certainly turned drinking a cup of tea into quite an experience.
Enjoy this Picture of Day from the Science at NASA website:
High Tea
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