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New perspectives of our home planet.
As Artemis II flew around the Moon on April 6, the crew captured these images of a crescent Earth from hundreds of thousands of miles away. See the latest photos and videos: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
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Sky full of stars.
Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.
ALT A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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This view just hits different 🌍
@Astro_Christina and @astro_reid take a moment to look back at Earth as they continue deep into space toward the Moon.
ALT Inside the dim Orion spacecraft, a window in the center of the image shows a brightly lit Earth and an astronaut sits on the right side looking back at Earth. Credit: NASA
ALT Inside the dim Orion spacecraft, a window in the center of the image shows a brightly lit Earth and an astronaut sits on the right side looking back at Earth. Credit: NASA
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Historic 2026 Nor’Easter combined with the old weather channel Intellistar Local On The 8s for New York City. ❄️
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Tonight’s magical sunset skies over the icy Hudson River #NYC
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Snow ❄️ Day in NYC 🎁
❄️Central Park after snow blankets Midtown Manhattan 🎄
Strolling the Upper East Side of Manhattan 🇺🇸
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The 3+ DAYS of relentless, torrential rainfall that caused crushing flash floods and landslides in Indonesia last week.
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HURRICANE MELISSA RECAP — We’re catching up on storm season and wanted to share what your Hurricane Hunters accomplished during Hurricane Melissa.
From Curaçao, the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flew 17 missions and 170 hours, gathering real-time data inside the storm. That information went straight to the National Hurricane Center, improving forecasts as Melissa intensified into a Category 5 and impacted communities across the region.
The team is now back at Keesler and gearing up for winter weather missions.
#HurricaneHunters #53WRS #403rdWing #AFReserve #HurricaneMelissa
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“What’s changed?” Why are we seeing the aurora so much more frequently nowadays?
We’re at the peak of an 11-year solar cycle. There are more sunspots, or eruptive bruises on the sun, that explosively hurl magnetic energy into space. Those shockwaves are what can give us the aurora (when aimed at Earth).
More sunspots = more eruptions = more opportunities for CMEs, or coronal mass ejections, to be hurled toward Earth.
We had crazy geomagnetic storms around Halloween of 2003, and another top-tier “G5” extreme storm last May. But G5 storms only happen once or twice per solar cycle. (This week’s did NOT reach G5 for a sufficiently long enough period to go in the books.)
Anyone remember the 2003 storms?
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Air traffic controllers at Chicago Executive Airport (PWK) guiding tonight's full moon rise. November's Beaver supermoon is the closest, biggest, and brightest of 2025.
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Hurricane Melissa was one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, with winds of 185 mph (300 km/h) at its peak. This view of Melissa at Category 5 strength shows its intensity, as a lightning-packed eye wall circles the center of the storm. (1/8)
ALT This image of lightning in the eye of Hurricane Melissa contains the visible (band 2) and group energy density (GLM) products from the GOES-19 weather satellite at 17:27 UTC on 2025-10-27.
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I listened to so many inspiring tales of survival in Crawford #Jamaica today. The common threat: everyday people doing their best in an insane situation: the core of Cat-5 #Hurricane #MELISSA.
* Keith ("Benji") Carey survived the storm surge in a tiny cement building on the waterfront, basically at sea level (!!!) in Gallon Beach. He did it by floating on a piece of Styrofoam and clutching the doorframe as waves crashed into the room. At the height of the storm, he could touch the ceiling. (He will evacuate as advised next time.)
* Desrine Dellop, who survived the storm surge with Benji, gave me a tour of her devastated Gallon Beach neighborhood. Here she is in front of her now roofless house. I was inspired by her calm vibe, despite what she's just been through.
* When Trishanna Givens' apartment blew apart from the force of the wind, she rushed around the building to seek shelter in the lounge in the front. As she put the key in the lock, the wind threw her with such force that the key broke off and she was scraped and bruised all over her body. She rode out the height of the storm curled in a ball against the downwind wide of the building, under a piece of construction material.
* Sylvester & Victolyn Atherton own the High Way Restaurant across the street from my hotel. When the roof tore off, they sought shelter under a concrete table. Fortunately, they got through it uninjured.
Thank you all for these tales of strength and survival! 👊
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2X increase in the most extreme hurrucanes!
Yesterday’s post connecting Melissa’s extra intensity to warmer ocean temperatures ruffled some feathers. Some complained that “one storm” doesn’t prove climate change.
That’s true.
So I dug deeper.
Looking at every Cat 4 & 5 in the Atlantic since 1980 (reliable records/ good data gathering) I broke the record into 2 equal parts.
1980-2002 and 2003-2025
What I found surprised even me. The most recent period has more than double the number of most intense hurricanes in the Atlantic!!
That’s not coincidence. Humans have become a force of nature. Through greenhouse warming and changes in aerosols (pollution) the oceans have warmed dramatically.
For instance, the water under #Melissa was about 4 degrees F hotter than it would have been ~100 years ago.
That’s huge! That extra heat powers a higher horse power engine with heavier wind & rain.
Is there a natural oscillation (AMO)component too? Perhaps, but IMO it’s tenuous.
In post analysis it’s very possible Melissa will be upgraded to the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever given lots of unprecedented data collected just before landfall.
With that said, personally I post this info simply because I find it interesting the degree to which we have changed the trajectory of our climate.
But - to be clear - I don’t ask that you do anything about it. The way you use this info and take action - or not take action - is not my business. To each his/ her own.
Personally I want to be sure I’m not denying reality by ignoring the symptoms. And I want to be sure I’m communicating the science to the public, as my position requires.
What you do with the info is your business.
