Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station, but updates regarding those activities have been all but halted by the U.S. government shutdown. Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui's social media posts were the exception...

Orbital observation

Expedition 73 flight engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) saw not one but two typhoons this week from aboard the International Space Station. (Typhoons are the same weather phenomenon as hurricanes: both are tropical cyclones. This type of powerful storm is called a hurricane in the Atlantic and central and eastern North Pacific regions, and a typhoon in the Northwest Pacific.) "The eye of Typhoon 22 has become somewhat unclear, but it still appears to be maintaining its strong inte

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