Archivo de la etiqueta: Astronomy photo

Ever stared down the gaping eye of a category 4 hurricane? It’s chilling, even from space.

Astronaut Ricky Arnold, from aboard the International Space Station, shared this image of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 10, taken as the orbiting laboratory flew over the massive storm.

Bright surface features on the dwarf planet Ceres known as faculae were first discovered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in 2015.

Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a pond of slush a glaciologist called a “snow swamp.”

A truck sprays water to reduce the dust as NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 with the mobile launcher atop moves slowly along, on its trek to Launch Pad 39B.