Tropical Cyclone Sagar is taking a path that few storms have taken before, as the compact storm draws on energy from the Gulf of Aden. Forecasts call for Tropical Sagar to make landfall between Somalia and Djibouti on Friday night, eastern time.
Humanitarian concerns: Somalia is still in the midst of unrest, and U.S. military forces operate there and in neighboring Djibouti, where most of America's African counterterrorism operations are based. This storm threatens to dump a year's worth of rain in just one or two days, causing flooding that may displace thousands of people, depending on the exact landfall location.
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has just taken a two-second test exposure snapshot of the southern constellation Centaurus. The photo, taken with one of four TESS cameras, reveals more than 200,000 stars.
Why it matters: TESS, which was launched on April 18 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, is well on its way to hunting for other planets outside our solar system that could harbor life.
