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If you were up early Wednesday morning with a clear view of the sky, you may have been treated to a rare sight. A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral just before 5 a.m. Within a few ...
A spectacular form of refraction, called the Fata Morgana, occurs with a temperature inversion, in which objects on the horizon or even beyond the horizon (e.g. islands, cliffs, ships, and icebergs) appear elongated and elevated, like "fairy tale castles".
Comet Kohoutek (formally designated C/1973 E1 and formerly as 1973 XII and 1973f) [c] is a comet that passed close to the Sun towards the end of 1973. Early predictions of the comet's peak brightness suggested that it had the potential to become one of the brightest comets of the 20th century, capturing the attention of the wider public and the press and earning the comet the moniker of "Comet ...
A Morning Glory cloud formation between Burketown and Normanton, Australia. The location of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Satellite photo of morning cloud formations over the Gulf of Carpentaria. Northern part of the visible linear cloud is North Australian Squall Line, Morning Glory cloud is the very southern part of this linear cloud.
This photograph shows a full moon (also called "The Harvest Moon"), one of four supermoons of the year and during a partial lunar eclipse, rising over Istanbul early Wednesday morning.
‘Planetary parade’ will see six planets line up in the morning sky. Jacopo Prisco, CNN. May 31, 2024 at 6:57 PM. Matias Delacroix/AP/File. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Japanese: 凱風快晴, Hepburn: Gaifū kaisei, literally South Wind, Clear Sky), also known as Red Fuji (赤富士, Akafuji), [1] is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849), part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, dating from c. 1830 to 1832. [2]
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has released a series of images of the sun that peer inside the depths of its sunspots and so-called "quiet regions." The sun may be close to 94 million miles away ...