The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
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HaileyMcComet:
I saw an aurora from a plane once. It was visually more spectacular than any CGI movie. I always seem to fly at night, which is not so great for looking out the window most of the time. But during aurora season, that's the way to go.
It certainly was spectacular... So grateful the flight attendant came to tell me, although, from what I could see, I was the only one he told! Aurora Borealis predictor http://auroranotify.com/1230-2/latest/ There have been some incredible Aurora's seen by the astronauts from the International Space Station...the red, more rare auroras, have recently been see frequently, as of late. They indicate more intense solar activity. http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/09/07/scott-kelly-space-station-aurora-borealis-orig.cnn/video/playlists/international-space-station/
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Belgian Astronomers pay tribute to David Bowie with new constellation shaped like lightning bolt... http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/belgian-astronomers-pay-tribute-to-david-bowie-with-new-constellation-20160116
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^^ that is so wonderful.️️️️️️
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That's so cool! I wonder if they've done that for any other musicians?!
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They discovered a planet beyond Pluto (I still think of Pluto as a Planet)... And they are calling it Planet 9. Couldn't they have picked a name that could stand with Mercury... Venus... Earth.... Mars ...Jupiter,Saturn... Uranus...Neptune ... And Planet 9???
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The_Fool:
They discovered a planet beyond Pluto (I still think of Pluto as a Planet)... And they are calling it Planet 9. Couldn't they have picked a name that could stand with Mercury... Venus... Earth.... Mars ...Jupiter,Saturn... Uranus...Neptune ... And Planet 9???
I agree Fool, I think they should call it Planet 9B as I also believe that Pluto is a Planet. It's supposed to be 10 times larger than earth and 20 billion miles...from earth.
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Number 9, Number 9, Number 9 I think Pluto is a planet too!!
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love2travel:
That's so cool! I wonder if they've done that for any other musicians?!
And Of Course There's...Lucy In The Sky...Diamond "The white dwarf star is a chunk of crystallized carbon that weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds. That would equal a diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats. After it was discoverd in 2004, astronomers nicknamed the space diamond Lucy after the Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. BEATLES IN WIKIPEDIA » Lucy, also known as BPM 37093 and V*886 Cen, is the 886th variable star in the constellation Centaurus." http://spacetoday.org/DeepSpace/Stars/WhiteDwarfs/LucyDiamondStarWhiteDwarf.html
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Full moon tonight.
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I was outside when the moon was low in the sky and it was Awesome as a full Moon The sun had set close to that time... The Moon was full a yellow orange large Sphere in the midnight blue sky.... the clouds formed in the opposite Direction in the sky .. Red Beautiful as all can be I felt lucky to be able to see it when I did.
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The_Fool:
I was outside when the moon was low in the sky and it was Awesome as a full Moon The sun had set close to that time... The Moon was full a yellow orange large Sphere in the midnight blue sky.... the clouds formed in the opposite Direction in the sky .. Red Beautiful as all can be I felt lucky to be able to see it when I did.
Last night, as I was out on my evening walk (but later than I'd usually go - this was around 10PM), there was a nice scene with the moon at just over half moon phase and the planet Jupiter shining brightly just above it....very cool to see. And if you can drag yourself out of bed predawn, you can see 5 planets at once - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn....from the eastern horizon up to about 1 o'clock, just into the western part of the sky (just past 'straight over head')
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I drove home last night and did see the Moon shining so brightly, with Jupiter hanging over its head. It was quite beautiful
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A 5 Planet Dawn... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1601/5Planets-hervas.jpg
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SurSteven:
A 5 Planet Dawn... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1601/5Planets-hervas.jpg
Wouldn't you know it ...... when something like this happens .... it gets overcast for the week and I didn't even get to see it ..... even without knowing what order they were going to be in ... sigh ... there are always pictures Thanks SurSteven for posting it here
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The_Fool:
SurSteven:
A 5 Planet Dawn... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1601/5Planets-hervas.jpg
Wouldn't you know it ...... when something like this happens .... it gets overcast for the week and I didn't even get to see it ..... even without knowing what order they were going to be in ... sigh ... there are always pictures Thanks SurSteven for posting it here
They talk like they're supposed to be visible before dawn for a few days into February as well
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NEW...Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres
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^ so they think the bright spots are salts then? Interesting....
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love2travel:
^ so they think the bright spots are salts then? Interesting....
Seems logical enough.
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Logical yes, don't know what I was hoping for. Maybe some type of signpost from an advanced civilization. Trying to give the ones who became advanced enough to find it, a clue or map to that part of the universe. or magnesium residue from great fires set as a gigantic SOS from a crashed spaceship... my fertile imagination running amuck again! Salt...
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SurSteven:
The_Fool:
SurSteven:
A 5 Planet Dawn... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1601/5Planets-hervas.jpg
Wouldn't you know it ...... when something like this happens .... it gets overcast for the week and I didn't even get to see it ..... even without knowing what order they were going to be in ... sigh ... there are always pictures Thanks SurSteven for posting it here
They talk like they're supposed to be visible before dawn for a few days into February as well
Because of my neighborhood, mercury was never going to be visible for me. In fact, Venus was below the tree line as well. But it was so bright, that just a little 'body english' on my part allowed me to see it between the branches (I see it a lot anyway, but was specifically trying to see it on this occasion along with the other planets at once)