Tag: astronomy
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April 11, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
The widening of petals with their leopard spots
look like the early night sky to me—
reds and oranges, coral at the horizon,
and a shaft of yellow light that we call the moon.
In Oresteian . . .
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February 02, 2007 10:32 PM EST --
Johannes Kepler ( an early astronomer )
The inscription of his own composition that was placed on his tomb....
"I measure the skies, now I measure the shadows
skybound was the mind, the . . .
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August 12, 2007 06:16 AM EDT --
The earth is passing through the Persied Meteor belt this week. We went out to the country to find a darker place to watch a while tonight. We saw several small streaks and two really big sparkly . . .
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November 21, 2007 01:13 AM EST --
You may have learned a little about Saturn in an old science class. What do you remember? I wanted to share a few interesting facts. Saturn is the only planet less dense than water. That means that if . . .
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March 22, 2009 05:29 AM EDT --
Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that is less dense than water. If you could build an imaginary gigantic bathtub, Saturn would float in it. --NASA
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April 07, 2009 12:30 AM EDT --
Check out the really cool pic in the article!
Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows. . . .
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October 05, 2009 09:13 PM EDT --
On Friday morning, Oct. 9th, you can watch a pair of spacecraft crash into the Moon with your own eyes. The purposeful impacts are the climax of NASA's LCROSS mission to unearth signs of water in lunar . . .
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October 28, 2009 07:51 PM EDT --
On October 8, 2009, with no warning, a 10-meter wide (32.81 ft) asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere above Indonesia and exploded. I am surprised at the lack of media coverage.
According to an article at . . .
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July 01, 2009 12:06 AM EDT --
It seems that the Catholic church has an interest in star gazing. In fact this has been going on for quite some time. Interesting that since the Inquisition of 1616 when Galileo was not allowed . . .
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January 04, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
January 3, 2007: Another meteor shower, another bunch of lunar impacts...
"On Dec. 14, 2006, we observed at least five Geminid meteors hitting the Moon," reports Bill Cooke of NASA's . . .
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May 31, 2007 07:18 PM EDT --
It will be a good night for those of you who enjoy watching the skies! We are supposed to have a BLUE MOON tonight! As the saying "once in a blue moon" implies, it is a rare occurence! . . .
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October 26, 2009 09:50 AM EDT --
When the sun sets tonight, Monday, Oct. 26th, go outside and look to the south. Jupiter and the Moon are converging for a beautiful conjunction. The bright pair can been seen even through thinly-clouded . . .
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November 10, 2009 03:10 PM EST --
The Leonid Meteor Shower is returning. It will peak at about 2:00am on Tuesday morning, November 17. It should produce about 20-30 meteors per hour.
The meteors in the Leonid Shower are debris from . . .
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September 17, 2006 06:53 PM EDT --
I wrote and submitted this to another group on June 6, 2006. The information remains as terrifying now, though, as it was then.
Repent, ye sinners! It's 6-6-06, so lock up . . .
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June 04, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
Now, THIS is really fascinating - I've never really given this any thought, but it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way.
Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.
It is more . . .
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June 13, 2008 12:42 AM EDT --
Two years after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded Pluto (ninth planet from the Sun) to "dwarf-planet" status, it was assigned to a new category of celestial bodies on Thursday. . . .
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August 27, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
Last night I had insomnia, again. I got up to sit for awhile, and I saw this spotlight in my window. I got up to see who had left that light on. It was the moon. Well, tomorrow . . .
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July 28, 2009 09:24 PM EDT --
Tomorrow is my birthday, but since I will be at work and watching a Ducks game I got my presents tonight. The biggest present is a really big set of binoculars. This isn’t for looking . . .
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October 24, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
How long had it been since he had seen another human being?
How long since he had talked to anyone but his own reflection?
How long since he’d seen the speck of reflected . . .
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July 21, 2008 02:57 AM EDT --
Best display is annual Perseid meteor shower in August
Quote from article --- Anyone gazing at the summer night sky for even a short length of time is likely to spot a few "shooting stars" . . .
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