I woke up with a start a couple of days ago with a terrible fear about being 50. My heart was racing. I should say that I’m only 44, 45 next year but I feel about 70 in many ways! I’m feeling … Continue reading →50 Shades of S...
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I woke up with a start a couple of days ago with a terrible fear about being 50. My heart was racing. I should say that I’m only 44, 45 next year but I feel about 70 in many ways! I’m feeling … Continue reading →50 Shades of S...
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There’s a new comet in the skies! C/2012 S1 (ISON) was discovered on the 21st September 2012 by Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok in Russia. The comet’s existence was confirmed by pictures also taken in December 2011. What is interesting ...
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The following video was nabbed from the Transit of Venus website where you'll find more information, plus, Transit of Venus apps concerning this rare cosmic event placed on our calendars by The Cosmos for June 5 or 6, 2012, depending on your viewing location:
You'll remember the last Venus Transit (aka, an Occultation of the...
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Look up, for the Draconid Meteor Shower is all around us!Space Weather News for Oct 7, 2011DRACONID METEOR SHOWER: On Saturday, October 8th, Earth will pass through a network of dusty filaments shed by Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. Forecasters expect the encounter to produce anywhere from a few dozen to a thousand meteors per hour visible...
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The following space alert definitely falls into SO'W's Look Up category!Space Weather News for Sept 20, 2011UARS, a NASA satellite the size of a small bus, will re-enter Earth's atmosphere later this week producing a brilliant fireball somewhere over our planet. Best estimates place the re-entry time during the late hours of Sept 23rd...
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How cosmically cool is this, right? Space Weather News for June 2, 2011ECLIPSE OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN: A solar eclipse at midnight? It's not only possible, it actually happened last night. On June 1st, the new Moon passed in front of the midnight sun above the Arctic circle, producing a partial eclipse of exquisite...
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1999, the New Millennium, 2012, and Planets All in a Row 2011by Jude CowellMay 10, 2011: as of today it is possible to see with the naked eye a fabulous celestial show: a line-up of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in the wee hours of the morning for the next few weeks.Even quirkily inclined...
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NPR BREAKING NEWS: Allied Aircraft Flying Over Libya French President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed that coalition planes are in the air above Libya. "Our air force will oppose any aggression by Col. Gadhafi against the population of Benghazi," he announced in Paris. More at NPR.~:~Astro-Note: the Iraq War's Solar Return 2011 occurs March 20,...
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