Aurora and the Pacific Northwest

The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, released to commemorate a quarter century of exploring the solar system and beyond since its launch on April 24, 1990. via NASA http://ift.tt/1HqPKbC

A dark, snaking line across the lower half of the sun in this Feb. 10, 2015 image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a filament of solar material hovering above the sun’s surface. SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as light, so the line is, in fact, an enormous swatch of…

In the story I’m working on, a character nicknamed Bugs gets to take her first trip into space in a bubble-ship. The occupants have the option to have the floor be transparent or solid. What would you choose? Clouds can be observed from the International Space Station moving across Earth’s surface, as in this image…

The galaxy pictured here is NGC 4424, located in the constellation of Virgo. It is not visible with the naked eye but has been captured here with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Although it may not be obvious from this image, NGC 4424 is in fact a spiral galaxy. In this image it is seen…