From safari ‘star beds’ to the Taj Mahal after hours, after-dark experiences are increasing in popularity with travellers all over the world — here’s why, and what there is to see.
The best place to see the northern lights is any destination in the "auroral zone," the area within an approximately 1,550-mile (2,500 kilometers) radius of the North Pole, according to theTromsø Geophysical Observatoryin Norway. That's where the aurora most frequently occurs, though the...
Astrobotic and ispace failed in their attempts, but Intuitive Machines succeeded, setting a craft named Odysseus down near the lunar south pole this past February. And then there's the elephant in the room: satellite megaconstellations. Chief among them is SpaceX's Starlink broadband system, ...
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows evidence of wind deposition of fine sediment in the form of drifts in the lee of obstacles in the martian south polar region. The picture is located near 83.4°S, 8.1°W. [NASA/JPL/MSSS] [NASA/JPL/ASU] This daytim...
enthusiasm, or of sublimity can take place independently of all artistic reference (poetry, painting, music, sculpture) and be felt before the spectacle of nature (rainbow, aurora borealis), they make manifest the hypersensitivity of a lived experience that is part of aisthesis in a broad sense...
Fire Safety Field Day is scheduled 9 a.m.until noon at the City of Aurora Public Safety Training Center, 25950 E. Quincy Ave., near the Aurora Reservoir. Entry is free, however donations are requested for the purchase of a trailer that Aurora Fire Rescue hopes to outfit with fire gear ...
Go where others can’t with a high-clearance 4×4.Rent a Jeepfor a day or longer at the most convenient places in the Rocky Mountains, near all the best trails. The Alpine Loop, connecting Ouray, Silverton, and Lake City is a national scenic byway and the only one that’s a 4×4...
The hot water river in the Reykadalur Valley is one of the most magical hot springs in Iceland, but you'll have to hike to get there... In the south of Iceland, about forty kilometers from the capital Reykjavík, lies the city of Hveragerði, which means "hot gardens" iREAD MORE...
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things wh...
3 of 11 | The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, are seen in the sky near Knaresborough, England, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Andrew Hawkes via AP) 4 of 11 | An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, lights up the night sky off Lake Michigan a...