Astronomy Picture of the Day - May 17th, 2020 - A Waterspout in Florida (Narrated by Brian) What's happening over the water? Pictured here is one of the better images yet recorded of a waterspout, a type of tornado that occurs over water. Waterspouts are spinning columns of rising moist air that typically form over warm water. Waterspouts can be as dangerous as tornadoes and can feature wind speeds over 200 kilometers per hour. Some waterspouts form away from thunderstorms and even during relatively fair weather. Waterspouts may be relatively transparent and initially visible only by an unusual pattern they create on the water. The featured image was taken in 2013 July near Tampa Bay, Florida. The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida is arguably the most active area in the world for waterspouts, with hundreds forming each year. Experts Debate: How will humanity first discover extraterrestrial life? Image Credit & Copyright: Joey Mole Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200517.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSy0d4hovg

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - February 7th, 2024 - Greenpeace (Narrated by Matthew) Greenpeace is a global campaigning network founded in Canada in 1971. Its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity", with campaigns focused on issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering and the anti-war and anti-nuclear movements. It uses direct action, advocacy, research and ecotage to achieve its goals. Greenpeace had its origins in protests staged in the late 1960s against Cannikin, an American underground nuclear weapon test in the tectonically unstable island of Amchitka in Alaska, amid concerns that the test would trigger earthquakes and a tsunami. This 1971 photograph shows the nuclear device that sparked the creation of Greenpeace being lowered into its firing hole for Cannikin. Photograph credit: United States Atomic Energy Commission; retouched by Kylesenior and Bammesk Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-02-07 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoKVdIhozg4

Beautiful News Daily - April 17th, 2020 - Despite US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement... (Narrated by Brian) On 1st June 2017, the US withdrew from the long negotiated Paris Agreement on climate change. The “We Are Still In” Declaration was made shortly afterwards. A coalition of cities, states and organisations pledged to disregard the withdrawal. That coalition has grown. It now represents a constituency of nearly half the American population. Committing to climate change targets. Working to reduce emissions. Keeping the original promise. Credits: David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net. License: Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Source: https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/676-paris-agreement This video was auto generated using data and media from InformationIsBeautiful.net. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz7dLH8jT0s

Astronomy Picture of the Day - September 17th, 2023 - Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse (Narrated by Brian) What are those dark streaks in this composite image of a solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon's center directly in front of the Sun's center. The Moon, though, was too far from the Earth to completely block the entire Sun. Light that streamed around the edges of the Moon is called a ring of fire. Images at each end of the sequence show sunlight that streamed through lunar valleys. As the Moon moved further in front of the Sun, left to right, only the higher peaks on the Moon's perimeter could block sunlight. Therefore, the dark streaks are projected, distorted, reversed, and magnified shadows of mountains at the Moon's edge. Bright areas are called Baily's Beads. Only people in a narrow swath across Earth's Eastern Hemisphere were able to view this full annular solar eclipse in 2020. Next month, though, a narrow swath crossing both North and South America will be exposed to the next annular solar eclipse. And next April, a total solar eclipse will be visible across North America. Open Science: Browse 3,000+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230917.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv4aUSpIars