Rainfall accumulation on the United States- timelapse
This visualization shows a heavy rainfall throughout Northern Texas and across Oklahoma as well as the drought in Southern California, by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.
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Black Hole Bull’s-eye
It looks like a shooting target, but actually is an image of nested rings of X-ray light centered on an erupting black hole.
High-energy fireworks coming in early 2018
Majestic fireworks in the our galaxy coming in early 2018, when a stellar remnant the size of a city, meets one of the brightest stars.
Winners of Weather Photos of the Year
These are the amazing winners of the ‘Weather in Focus’ photo contest of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…
New Horizons to explore Pluto
Next month, NASA’s New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever created, will pas by Pluto beaming back high-resolution photos of the dwarf planet’s surface, for the first time
Cloudy Earth global map
A study based on 13 years of satellite data estimated that about 67 percent of Earth’s surface is typically covered by clouds.
Webb Space Telescope in giant Thermal Vacuum Chamber
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder backplane test model, inside NASA’s giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is being
Seasonal Year-Long Cycles discovered on the Sun
Our sun is constantly changing, the activity cycle peaks approximately every 11 years. New research shows evidence of a shorter time cycle as well, with activity waxing
SUN
Magnificent time lapse sequences of the sun’s atmosphere observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft between 2011 and 2015.