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Category Archives: Look! Up in the sky!
Pluto Augmented
At APotD I saw this interesting news: Pluto has a fifth moon! A fifth moon has been discovered orbiting Pluto. The moon was discovered earlier this month in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for the New … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Astronomy, Hubble Telescope, moon, Pluto
12 Comments
12 Comments
Cathedral Parish: “We welcome drop ins!”
I missed this the other day. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald: Worshippers attending Mass at Brentwood Cathedral in Essex had a rude experience when a large block of ice fell through the roof during the Eucharistic … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged confession, D. Brentwood, sacrament of penance
2 Comments
2 Comments
CME Season
If there is a massive ejection of material from the Sun, a coronal mass ejection (CME), billions of tons of charged particles hurled out into space, which strikes the Earth, and if the polarity of the mass lines up with … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged CME, Coronal Mass Ejection, electromagnetic pulse, EMP, TEOTWAWKI
12 Comments
12 Comments
Just Too Cool: Panoramic View on MARS!
From poor little Spirit’s twin, Opportunity, comes this panoramic view. HERE. It is stitched together from 817 images taken between 12 Dec 2011 and 8 May 2012 while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop called “Greeley Haven” during the Martian … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit
4 Comments
4 Comments
All Alone in the Night
A reader alerted me to this video, which is way too cool. Time-lapse video taken from the International Space Station when on the night-side of our little blue marble. [wp_youtube]FG0fTKAqZ5g[/wp_youtube]
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged aurora, International Space Station, ISS
4 Comments
4 Comments
Seven Minutes of Terror
Those of you who have been reading here for a long while know of my admiration for poor little Spirit. Opportunity keeps rolling, of course. But … Curiosity is coming. And when I mean “Seven Minutes of Terror”, I don’t … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Rover, Opportunity, Spirit
10 Comments
10 Comments
“He must increase. I must decrease.” A note on the Summer Solstice
Today is the Summer Solstice. From now, our northern hemispheric days get shorter, as the world’s tilt starts changing our daily/seasonal clocks. I wonder if the LCWR leadership have special plans tonight! An ancient Augustinian sermon made a connection between … Read More
Just Too Cool: a stamp … yes… a stamp
Some of you long-time readers know that I sometimes write about things astronomical and that I have mentioned the fascinating Jesuit mathematician Christopher Clavius (+1612), who worked out the reform of the calendar for Pope Gregory XIII. For your Just Too … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Linking Back, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Christopher Clavius, Gregory XIII
7 Comments
7 Comments
Geeky and Beautiful
For your “Look! Up In The Sky!” file, you Transit of Venus fans will want to watch the ultra-hi-def video of different views of the transit. This is from the Sun people at NASA and Astronomy Pic of the Day, … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, O'Brian Tags
Tagged APOD, gralloch, NASA, Pres. Obama, Transit of Venus
1 Comment
1 Comment
A great video of the Transit of Venus.
I feel dreadful from this cold. But this was cool enough to clear my head for a few seconds. A great video of the Transit of Venus. [wp_youtube]QX6BbP1wAIs[/wp_youtube] There are lots of other great videos of the Transit out there … Read More
OrdainedButStillbeingFormedDiakonos on ROME 26/10– Day 25: King things: “While I am from the home of the Tampa Bay Rays and indeed saw a game or two at the…”
