Mira Behn

Happy day! I counted 4 raspberries, 2 cherries, 1 magnolia, an apple, a pear, and a peach, plus 4-7 grape vines that made it through the winter. Today the oldest cherry, the apple and the pear are wearing flowers. Might start a few more cherries, since they seem to like my dirt.

Happy Spring! Lunar Eclipse flock in their new habitat

A Future with Quiet Supersonic Flight 🤫✈️ NASA's Quesst mission seeks to collect data that could make commercial supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically reducing travel time. The centerpiece of the Quesst mission is NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft: nasa.gov/mission/quesst/

🚨 Mars will be our next planetary home for human civilization.

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The chance for some severe weather will exist again this week, as noted on the outlooks below. Keep an eye out in the Ohio Valley and Central Appalachians in the Tuesday Night through Thursday time frame. Visit weather.gov for your local forecast.

When a tornado watch is issued, monitor the weather and be prepared to act quickly. When a tornado warning is issued, take shelter immediately! #INwx #SeverePrep

@ryanhallyall Thanks for the heads up!

Two rounds of severe weather target Illinois, Indiana, and Texas on Tuesday with tornado risks. The system moves east Wednesday affecting the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. Have a safety plan ready and keep your phone charged.

On my first mission I completely fell in love with space photography - tough not to when you’re graced with this kind of unique perspective of viewing all that Earth has to behold from above. I’ve been so happy to bust out the array of impressive lenses that we have up here once again, and this time with even better cameras (Nikon Z9, vs the D5 from my previous mission). I was lucky enough to capture some pretty good aurora (northern lights, here over Alaska and Canada) on my first timelapse attempt of the mission, stay tuned for more! Hoping for some impressive solar events to put on a fascinating show like the ones a few months ago.

10:35am CST #SPC Day1 Outlook Slight Risk: from parts of Texas to the Lower Mississippi Valley/Tennessee Valley and Upper Ohio Valley spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo…

Severe Thunderstorm WATCH issued for the counties shaded in yellow until 3/07 5:00PM CST. #WAVEWeather app: onelink.to/7ysptn

Strong-to-severe storms are moving across western KY at this hour. The main severe threat will remain along and south of the Parkways this afternoon, where a Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued.

Here's an early look at how El Niño may affect global precipitation patterns later this year. Reduced rainfall may lead to drought in parts of Africa, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean islands while enhanced rains are possible across the Pacific, South America and eastern Asia.

NASA contract confirms selection of ULA’s Centaur 5 as new upper stage for the SLS rocket Full story: spaceflightnow.com/2026/03/07/nas… Image: United Launch Alliance (2023)

🌀 The Hidden Fabric of the Universe 🌌 What if space and time are not two separate things… but one single fabric holding the entire universe together? 🪐 Einstein called it space-time — a 4D fabric made of three parts space and one part time. Everything that exists — stars, planets, even you — moves and floats on this invisible fabric. When something huge like the Sun sits on it, the fabric bends… and that bending is what we feel as gravity. 🌞🌍 So Earth doesn’t go around the Sun because it’s being “pulled” — it moves along the curve made in this cosmic fabric! Even time itself changes here. ⏳ Near strong gravity, time slows down. That’s why clocks on GPS satellites tick faster than the ones on Earth — and scientists must fix that every single day. From black holes that twist this fabric into tunnels… to the Big Bang that stretched it at the beginning of time — space-time still hides secrets we’ve barely begun to understand. 🌀 Maybe… reality itself is not what it seems.

From the Moon, a lunar eclipse looks like a total solar eclipse, but it lasts a LOT longer. For NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, that means the team has to plan carefully for the 4 hours that the spacecraft — and its solar panels — will be in the dark and the cold. 🌑🛰  1/3

On Mar. 3, a total lunar eclipse will be visible in the Americas for the first time since March 2025. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes directly between the Sun and Moon, casting a shadow that makes the Moon appear red. go.nasa.gov/3OLlByf

REMINDER: Daylight Saving Time begins in ONE WEEK, March 8th, 2026 at 2:00 AM, so remember to Spring Forward one hour! This will be the best time to replace the batteries in your NOAA Weather Radio, Smoke Detectors, and Carbon Monoxide Detectors. #scwx #ncwx #gawx

Lawmakers stress new urgency around war powers votes after Iran strikes cbsnews.com/news/congress-…

MOON WILL TURN RED for 1 HOUR very early TUESDAY! 🌕 Nearly all of North and South America will be able to see the RED MOON late Monday night/Tuesday morning 6:04 AM and 7:02 AM Eastern Time. That's 5:04 AM Central, 4:04 AM Mountain and 4:04 AM Tuesday morning on the West Coast. This is due to a total lunar eclipse. You won't need glasses or anything special – just clear skies and cooperative weather. Lunar eclipses occur when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon. That blocks most of the sunlight from reaching the moon. The moon instead becomes plunged in Earth's shadow – the "umbra." But SOME light makes it through – that which skims around the edges of Earth and passes through our atmosphere at a steep angle. Because the sunlight has to pass through a long fetch of our atmosphere, shorter wavelengths of light get "scattered" away. Only the red/orange light gets through. (It's also why sunrises and sunsets on Earth appear red... the sun is low to the horizon and the light passes through more of our atmosphere. During a total lunar eclipse, you're seeing the light of all of Earth's simultaneous sunrises and sunsets projected onto the moon! On the East Coast, the totality phase will occur right as the moon is setting in the west and the sun is rising in the east. This will be a rare "selenelion." Before and after "totality," you'll see the shadow of Earth begin to take a bite out of the moon, and then afterwards withdraw accordingly. Let us know what pictures you get!