Eclipses have been a part of the human experience since the moment we could be called human. Throughout history, various groups have interpreted eclipses in different ways, but almost always with a ...
A recent study found that cumulus clouds, the small cotton ball-like ones typical for a sunny day, can dissipate once an eclipse begins. But if the skies are overcast, your view could still be ...
Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...
Astronomers have been puzzling over a mystery on Neptune, and now they think they have unlocked its secret. The ice giant’s ghostly, cirrus-like clouds largely disappeared four years ago. Today, just ...
Cumulus clouds only returned after the final stage of the eclipse. On days when there is no solar eclipse, this effect does not occur, according to the study. "Those are the low, patchy, puffy clouds ...
Weather forecast for Neptune: After sunny weather for the past few Earth years, we’ll see increasingly more clouds over the next few years. In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft provided the first ...
Weather forecasts for Indiana during the solar eclipse are mixed, with historic data showing a likelihood of cloud cover while a long-range forecast showed clearer skies. A new study, however, shows ...
When the moon passes in front of the sun during a solar eclipse and ushers in an uncharacteristic darkness, nature tends to react. Birds cease their chirping. Buzzing bees return to their hives. And ...
4Warn Weather – Now you see them, now you don’t. Wouldn’t it be nice if the clouds expected for Monday’s solar eclipse magically disappeared just in time for the moon to pass between the Earth and the ...
The ice-giant Neptune, the most distant and third largest planet in our solar system, is a distinctive dark blue ball of gas, which may appear calm but is actually throttled by a chaotic atmosphere.
Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.