This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. These Martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of...
Crossposted from lemmy.world/post/42148733
Eight billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon’s bright edge as viewed by an external camera on the outbound Orion spacecraft. Orion was headed for a powered flyby that took it to within...
Ambala station in North India has two abandoned stationery locos for visitors to glance: a NG and this MG one. Both are remnants of past era. Whilst NG and MG tracks do exist in India, they are in very limited area and usually Unesco Heritage Sites....
My Microsoft Outlook has become very slow while opening emails, searching messages, and syncing folders. I recently noticed that my PST file size has grown quite large due to old emails and attachments. I want to improve Outlook performance without losing any important data. Can anyone suggest safe and effective ways to compress...
Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth’s skies toward the constellation Lepus, The Hare. Posing with scattered Milky Way stars, its generally simple spherical shape about 8 light-years in diameter is revealed in this deep telescopic image. The...
Perched outside Ambala station, this NG loco (only on display, not use) harks back to a different era
Maybe this lives in showerthoughts, but Chile has a lot of large telescopes and you often hear its because they’re on mountains above clouds. The border with Argentina goes through the middle of the mountains so it seems like it should be a good spot for telescopes too....
Cycle 25 solar maximum made 2025 a great year for aurora borealis (or aurora australis) on planet Earth. And the high level of solar activity should extend into 2026. So, while you’re celebrating the arrival of the new year, check out this spectacular auroral display that erupted in starry night skies over Kirkjufell, Iceland....