New Results From Our Juno Mission Suggest The Planet Is Home To “shallow Lightning.” An Unexpected

Peter Goodfellow

As the Fog Rolls In

Although we talk about fog rolling in, it’s rare for us to have a perspective where we can truly appreciate that flow. But this photograph from Tanmay Sapkal provides just that for the low summer fogs sweeping over Marin, CA. (Image credit: T. Sapkal; via NatGeo) Read the full article

NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with “Rose” of Galaxies by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Image of the rings of Neptune captured by the space probe voyager 2 in August 1989.

Credit: NASA/JPL

Astronomy vignettes. Learning about our world. 1932.  

The clouds of Venus in infrared

Mammatus clouds are a relatively rare and dramatic variety. (Image and video credit: M. Olbinski)

the saline water from your mouth | © víctor m. alonso

"Give me the essence of your nights,

give me the saline water from your mouth,"

"Dame la esencia de tus noches,

dame el agua salina de tu boca,"

[© víctor m. alonso | from the poem 'amor']

i’m doing a short Photoshop class because i’m apparently not smart/millennial enough to teach myself so here’s a practice deer, messing around with selection tools and photo-editing with minor, minor doodling

Retrograde motion of Mars in the night sky of the Earth.

Image Credit: Tunc Tezel