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11/08/2022

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09/08/2022

The Trapps are the world's tallest family 😎

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09/07/2022

recorded more than 200 000 lightning strikes in June - an absolutely monthly record, according to Meteo-France.

📷Supercell between Reims - Troyes, from Wouter van Bernebeek.

If you've got any great photos of lightning - or any other wild weather, we would love to have them in the WMO Calendar competition!!

🔗 https://bit.ly/WMOCalendarCompetition

08/07/2022

The Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

It is a mandatory religious duty: all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and of supporting their family during their absence from home, must carry out the pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime.

The rites of pilgrimage are performed over five to six days, extending from the 8th to the 12th or 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar.

In 2019, over 1.8 million people traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, along with more than 600,000 local pilgrims. Since 2020, however, several restrictions have been applied due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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08/07/2022

07/07/2022

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration is supplying the upcoming ESA - European Space Agency Lunar Pathfinder satellite with an array of laser retroreflectors that will validate navigation capabilities critical to the NASA Artemis missions and future lunar exploration.

LEARN MORE >> https://go.nasa.gov/3akg51U

06/07/2022

About 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela, the spectacular Southern Ring Nebula resides.

In this image, a dying star ejects a cloud of gas expanding outwards at nine miles per second.

If you look closely near the nebula’s center, there are actually two stars: a bright one, and a much fainter companion just above it to the right. That fainter star is the one ejecting this nebula! It’s smaller than our Sun, but extremely hot, and the flood of ultraviolet radiation from its surface makes the surrounding gases glow through fluorescence. The other brighter star is in an earlier stage of stellar evolution, but will probably eject its own nebula later on.

Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/3NGTV7D

Image credits: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA)

30/06/2022

Happy International Asteroid Day! 🪨

After watching this video, what else do you want to know about asteroids? 🤔

📽️ : CSA, NASA

18/06/2022

Serious connection between a Tracker and a young male lion 🦁

📽️ Everseen Africa.

17/06/2022

Flipping your perspective is a good thing! ☁️

Clouds look magnificent when you’re looking down on them from the Space Station. As you can see, on May 7, the weather above the Atlantic Ocean was partly cloudy.

📷: NASA

17/06/2022

School strike week 200.

16/06/2022

Need a break? Breathe in. Breathe out. And admire the beauty of our planet. 🌎

Have a nice day, dear Earthlings.

🎥: CSA, NASA

16/06/2022

It takes a telescope team to investigate how stars form in our universe! ⭐

This Hubble image shows the star nursery NGC 346. After NASA's James Webb Space Telescope begins science operations next month, astronomers will use its sharp infrared vision to observe medium-mass stars like our Sun that are still wrapped in dense, dusty cocoons.

This will help researchers learn more about how galaxies from long ago formed stars at such a high rate, because NGC 346 shares some of the same conditions that existed in galaxies during this peak star-formation era.

🔗 Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/3xyqM8l

📷: NASA, ESA, and A. Nota (STScI/ESA)