The image shows off Earth's colorful airglow as well as two nearby galaxies, together dubbed the Magellanic Clouds, just outside of our own cosmic neighborhood. In the bottom half of the photo ...
The colorful ripples of stars seem to form a luminescent spiral in a phenomenon known as "airglow." "The unusual pattern is created by atmospheric gravity waves, waves of alternating air pressure ...
However, they can detect quakes of only magnitude 4.0–4.5 and larger. Satellite-based imagers taking airglow measurements could detect Venusquakes of about the same magnitude, and they may be ...
We can also see the airglow on Earth’s horizon, sunlight glinting off the SpaceX’s distant Starlink satellites, several spacecraft docked at the ISS, and parts of the station itself ...