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Category Archives: Look! Up in the sky!
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
I want to remind the readership of a cool DVD (sent to me last year by a reader) and website wherein a good argument is made about the Star of Bethlehem. What was the Star of Bethlehem, anyway? Surely it … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Star of Bethlehem
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22 Comments
Of the deaths of stars and souls
This is just too cool not to share. From APOD: My emphases and comments: Explanation: It’s back. Never before has an observed supernova been predicted. The unique astronomical event occurred in the field of galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. Most bright … Read More
Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter!
Some news about your planet. From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged dark matter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Rads on a Plane! Holes in the Sun! Flares!
Not for Rad Trads, unless you are also frequent flyers… From Spaceweather… RADS ON A PLANE: Regular readers know that Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus regularly fly balloons to the stratosphere to measure cosmic rays. For … Read More
END OF WORLD! #Synod15 or Globe Killing Asteroid?
We don’t know the time or place, but we will on day die and face our Judge. I saw this at NASA after a priest friend alerted me to it. He went to confession … I’m just sayin’. At Express I saw … Read More
CQ CQ CQ #HamRadio Blood Moon Edition (and bacon)
I returned from Tokyo tonight to find the famous annihilation SHTF TEOTWAWKI moon going on. First, I went to a “bachelor party” of sorts for a young fellow who contributes to Gregorian chant here in the Diocese of the Extraordinary … Read More
SUPERMOON ECLIPSE
From Spaceweather: SUPERMOON ECLIPSE: This weekend’s full Moon is a supermoon, the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year. And it is going to be eclipsed. On Sunday evening, Sept. 27th, the supermoon will pass through the shadow of Earth, … Read More
Double Eclipse of the Sun!
This is simply too cool. From SpaceWeather… DOUBLE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN: On Sept. 13th, the sun was eclipsed–twice! No one on Earth has ever seen anything like it. Indeed, it was only visible from Earth orbit. NASA’s Solar Dynamics … Read More
Aurora Alert!
But wait! There’s more… from my email… GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A stream of solar wind hit Earth’s magnetic field on Sept. 11th, sparking one of the strongest geomagnetic storms of the year and auroras in multiple US states. This continues a … Read More
How Spirit got there
Poor little Spirit isn’t working anymore (so far as we know), but this is how he got there!
Vir Qui Timet Dominum on This… this…. this… but this….: “Anyone doing pagan ceremonies to commemorate St. Kateri clearly does not understand the story of St. Kateri”
