Hubble image of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis, about 20,000 years-light from Earth (left). This impressive shape is caused by the red supergiant star at the middle of the image.
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Hurricane Elena, with wind speeds in excess of 177 kilometers per hour, was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico in 1985. Almost the entire storm can be seen in this high-oblique photograph. For instance, a number of thunderstorms with their overshooting tops, the spiral bands of numerous thunderstorms leading to the eye of the hurricane, and numerous cloud gravity waves within the spiral bands can be seen. Some portions of the eye wall, where the most destructive winds of the storm occur, are also visible. This storm eventually made landfall near Gulfport, Mississippi. (NASA). |
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Hurricane Elena, with wind speeds in excess of 177 kilometers per hour, was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico in 1985. Almost the entire storm can be seen in this high-oblique photograph. For instance, a number of thunderstorms with their overshooting tops, the spiral bands of numerous thunderstorms leading to the eye of the hurricane, and numerous cloud gravity waves within the spiral bands can be seen. Some portions of the eye wall, where the most destructive winds of the storm occur, are also visible. This storm eventually made landfall near Gulfport, Mississippi. (NASA). |
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Hurricane Elena, with wind speeds in excess of 177 kilometers per hour, was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico in 1985. Almost the entire storm can be seen in this high-oblique photograph. For instance, a number of thunderstorms with their overshooting tops, the spiral bands of numerous thunderstorms leading to the eye of the hurricane, and numerous cloud gravity waves within the spiral bands can be seen. Some portions of the eye wall, where the most destructive winds of the storm occur, are also visible. This storm eventually made landfall near Gulfport, Mississippi. (NASA). |
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Hurricane Elena, with wind speeds in excess of 177 kilometers per hour, was photographed in the Gulf of Mexico in 1985. Almost the entire storm can be seen in this high-oblique photograph. For instance, a number of thunderstorms with their overshooting tops, the spiral bands of numerous thunderstorms leading to the eye of the hurricane, and numerous cloud gravity waves within the spiral bands can be seen. Some portions of the eye wall, where the most destructive winds of the storm occur, are also visible. This storm eventually made landfall near Gulfport, Mississippi. (NASA). |
A dark blue view of the Earth.
Neptune
The sunrise. From this view, much of the solar energy is scattered by the residue from the Philippine's Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption in June 1991. The dark band of aerosols extending across the image, through which the sun is visible, consist primarily of sulfuric acid crystals that scatters the incoming sunlight. (NASA).
Fascinating Shapes of a nebula, NASA.
Launch views of the Columbia for the STS-1 mission, April 12, 1981. The same Space Shuttle came apart on February, 2003, killing the seven crew members in that fatal accident.
20 JULY 1969, Apollo 11. The first lunar landing mission. In the photo, Neil Armstrong on the Moon, the deployed United States flag and the Lunar Module.
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