☀️🌕 DID YOU KNOW || On August 2, 2027, a TOTAL solar eclipse will plunge parts of the world into darkness for nearly 6 minutes.
This rare celestial event won't repeat for a century.
I think installing solar panels over parking lots is far better for the environment than covering mountains or deserts.
You can protect natural ecosystems while providing shade for cars at the same time.
Efficient and practical.
A friend’s 15-year-old child asked me:
Child: “Since there’s nothing in the Sahara Desert, couldn’t we just cover it with solar panels?”
Me: “Someone actually looked into that.”
Child: “Seriously? What happened?”
Me: “They calculated that it could generate 18 times the world’s energy demand. But they also discovered something terrifying.”
Child: “What?”
Me: “Well…”
🌊🪐🔭 AMAZING || Astronomers from the University of Montreal identified TOI-1452 b, a super-Earth located about 100 light-years away and roughly 70% larger than Earth, whose density suggests it could be an ocean world with water making up as much as 22% of its mass.
🌞📜🌲 In 1204, Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika recorded blood-red lights filling Kyoto’s northern sky for three consecutive nights.
Scientists later analyzed carbon-14 spikes in buried tree rings from the same era and confirmed a major solar proton event around 1200–1201 that would cripple every satellite in orbit today.
🌕🌍📸 IN IMAGES || Exactly 60 years ago today, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, revealing a crescent Earth rising over the cratered lunar horizon.
🇯🇵🚀🌑 FLASH || Japan will launch the MMX probe to Phobos, one of Mars’ moons, on October 20, 2026, with the goal of landing there and returning the first-ever samples collected from a Martian moon.
The five-year mission aims to unravel the origin of Mars’ moons and provide clues about the history of the Red Planet.
✨🌌 IMPRESSIVE ||The aurora borealis is putting on a SPECTACULAR show over Malangen, Norway, exploding into vivid reds, electric greens, soft yellows, and pinks. It's one of the most breathtaking performances seen in years.