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Category Archives: Look! Up in the sky!
LYRID METEOR SHOWER peaks this weekend
From Space Weather: LYRID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks this weekend on the night of April 21-22 when Earth passes through a stream of debris from ancient Comet Thatcher. Usually the shower is mild (10-20 meteors per … Read More
Of touch downs and splash downs
Today Discovery, heading to her tomb in Washington, touched down safely at Dulles Airport on the back of the 747. Today in 1970 the stricken Odyssey of the Apollo 13 Moon mission splashed down safely on the back of courage, ingenuity … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Apollo 13, Discovery, NASA, Odyssey, Pres. Obama, space program, Space Shuttle
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36 Comments
Of things Lyrid, Saturnine, Solar and TEOTWAWKI
From Spaceweather comes, first, benign news and, then, news that one of these days is going to precede TEOTWAWKI: LYRID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is approaching the debris field of ancient Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower … Read More
A Titanic Fata Morgana
By now most of you know that today was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Astronomy Pic of the Day, which isn’t limited to covering things celestial, has a photo of a very curious natural phenomenon which … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged 15 April, APOD, Astronomy Pic of the Day, Fata Morgana, iceberg, RMS Titanic
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14 Comments
EXPLOSION ABOARD ODYSSEY! 42 years ago on Friday 13th
Jimmy Akin reminded me today that it is the anniversary of the day an oxygen tank exploded in the Service Module of Apollo 13 on its way to our great natural satellite’s Fra Mauro Highlands, named after the 15th c. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, Apollo, Apollo 13, Ares, Constellation, Fra Mauro, Gemini, infanticide, Mars, Mercury, moon, NASA, Pres. Obama
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16 Comments
Geostationary satellites and the Sun rising in the West
I had a flight yesterday evening that took off just at sunset. Thus, I had the interesting experience of watching the Sun rise in the West. As we gained altitude, the Sun came back up above the horizon and appeared … Read More
One of the coolest measurements of all: Zettameters!
Learn something new everyday, is what I always say. Today I learned that there is a zettameter, which is a sextillion 1021 meters and there is a yottameter, which is a septillion 1024 meters. There is also, for really small … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Order of magnitude, yoctometer, yottameter, zeptameter, zettameter
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22 Comments
ALERT! INCOMING CME!
From SpaceWeather: INCOMING CME: As Earth’s magnetic field reverberates from the impact of one CME on March 8th, a second CME is on the way. Big sunspot AR1429 unleashed an M6-class solar flare today, and the eruption hurled a cloud … Read More
Going for a spin
Time elapsed, from the ISS. [wp_youtube]FG0fTKAqZ5g[/wp_youtube]
Things Solar
There was a partial eclipse of the Sun today, Spaceweather reports, but you had to be in space to see it. More precisely, you had to be the Solar Dynamics Observatory in geosynchronous orbit 36,000 km above the surface of … Read More
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