It’s easy to confuse these 2 elusive, colorful, beautiful daytime sky phenomena. How can you tell the difference? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/iridescent-cloud-circumhorizon-arc-how-to-tell-difference…
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ALMA spies a cool gas ring around our Milky Way’s central black hole
New observations by the ALMA telescope in Chile have revealed a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped around Sagittarius A*, the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/cool-gas-ring-milky-way-central-black-hole…
Moon in Leo the Lion on June 8 and 9
These next few nights – June 8 and 9, 2019 – use the moon to locate Leo’s bright star Regulus. Once the moon leaves the evening sky, starting around the solstice, try to piece together the starlit figure of the Lion in a dark sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-regulus-on-june-8-and-9…
Here’s a portrait of a family of stars
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was used to create this large mosaic of stars and dust clouds in the direction of the constellation Cepheus. Here are multiple star clusters – young, middle-aged and older – born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/star-family-portrait-cepheus-b-and-c…
Coming Soon: The Google IT Support Professional Certificate in Portuguese
We’re excited to announce that the Google IT Support Professional Certificate will be made available in Portuguese later this year. Launched with a vision of equipping learners with critical skills for a career in IT support, the Google IT Support Professional Certificate has quickly become a highly sought-after credential on our platform. Over 70,000 learners […]
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View from space: North America’s deepest lake
Roughly the same size of Belgium, Canada’s Great Slave Lake runs nearly 2,000 feet (600 meters) deep. This article from NASA Earth Observatory describes the lake and conditions around it in 2019. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/great-slave-lake-deepest-in-north-america…
Curiosity sees noctilucent clouds shining in Mars’ sky
Late last month, the Curiosity rover picked up wonderful images of noctilucent – or “night-shining” – clouds in the Martian sky. Plus – if you’re at a high latitude on Earth now – it’s time to start looking for these clouds. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/noctilucent-clouds-night-shining-mars-earth-2019…
Alberta sky
Cloud and crepuscular rays over Alberta, Canada Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/alberta-canada-crepescular-rays-may2019-photo…
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vesak, the Buddha’s Birthday
Buddhist celebrate Vesak, Sri Lanka president pardons a Buddhist nationalist leader, and a new app offers meditation by and for people of color. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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New evidence for Pluto’s subsurface ocean
Does Pluto have an ocean? That idea seems preposterous at first, but a new study adds to the growing evidence for a subsurface ocean on this distant dwarf planet … and explains how it stays liquid. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/pluto-subsurface-ocean-methane-gas-hydrate-layer…