starry night; how beautiful;

Do you know what this is? A guess? Anyone? Bueller? Well, here is the explanation:

The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine.

Some skygazers were treated to the unexpected view of a bright sparkling glow Wednesday night, created when astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery dumped the waste out into space.

The water dump was a scheduled task for STS-128 pilot Kevin Ford, who poured out urine and waste water stored aboard the shuttle in preparation for a landing attempt Thursday. Weather thwarted that try, but astronauts plan another landing attempt Friday at 5:48 p.m. EDT (2148 GMT) in Florida, though rain and high winds are expected again.

The light show Wednesday was aided by an unusually large amount of water being dumped all at once - about 150 pounds (68 kg), said NASA spokeswoman Kylie Clem. Discovery had just undocked from the International Space Station the day before, and had not been able to unload waste water during the 10-day visit.

So next time you turn your gaze the beautiful nighttime sky to enjoy the stars...

solar eclipse the other way around

so what does a solar eclipse look like from space? that's right just the moon's shadow across the earth:

moonbell; music from above;

Moonbell is a music generator. It generates music based on lunar topographical data obtained by Japan’s Kaguya (SELENE) explorer between late 2007 to June 2009.

Launch Moonbell
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it is 1970; do you know where your space capsules are?

A few years ago, as we had found out, Soviet Union had discovered and then returned an Apollo capsule back to NASA.

Awwwww snap!!