WHIRLPOOL IN THE SKY! The Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii was able to capture timelapse footage of a "whirlpool" in the sky last January 18, 2023. Captured by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, the whirlpool "seems to be related to the SpaceX company's launch of a new satellite," National Astronomical Observatory of Japan representatives said on Twitter, according to a report by Reuters. SpaceX had launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral to deploy a satellite into a medium-earth orbit earlier

🌋 ➡️ 🏔️ Snow accumulation at the summit of Mauna Loa, an active volcano on the Island of Hawaii, was visible from a satellite early on Wednesday, January 7. Snow could also be seem atop the dormant Mauna Kea volcano, according to the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University (CIRA). On Sunday, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported that “deep moisture” was being drawn from the south ahead of a “developing cold core kona low” that would produce “peri