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ALERT!
Space jellyfish alert!
Starlink 10-49 from SLC-40 in Florida on August 25, 2026 at 5:33:17 AM EDT could produce a space jellyfish. This occurs when a rocket and its expanding exhaust plumes are illuminated by the sun and observers are in local darkness.
The rocket will enter… pic.twitter.com/cIzxBnQCpw
— Space Jellyfish Alerts (@spacejellyalert) August 24, 2026
Look! Up in the sky!
HEADS UP! ?? This week a LUNAR ECLIPSE will be visible across the United States Thursday evening into early Friday morning! 96% of the Moon’s visible disk will slip into Earth’s shadow. So close to totality that most of it will have a red tint while only a thin bright sliver… pic.twitter.com/dgc45iMdHN
— Matt Devitt (@MattDevittWX) August 23, 2026
White to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
Thank you Fr. Z! should cloud cover cooperate, this will be splendid.
1. Qh7+ Kf7 forced
2. Bg6+ Ke7 forced
3. Qxg7+ Rf7 forced
4. QxR#
Dang it. I always get a lot of cloud cover whenever there’s cool stuff going on.
I saw the space jellyfish! Thanks for the heads up. Usually, we have cloud cover for anything interesting happening in the sky, but today it was clear skies.