Category: astronomy
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SUPER BLUE MOON ECLIPSE JANUARY 31, 2018
The Blue Moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow on January 31, 2018. This will cause a total lunar eclipse. This is a full moon and will  totally be in the Earth’s umbral shadow. For those who live in North America or the Hawaiian Island, the eclipse will be visible in the sky just…
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Fireball Spotted Over Michigan!
Residents of Michigan and a few neighboring states witnessed a brilliant fireball light up the night sky on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. According to the United States Geological Survey, the meteor also caused what is the equivalent of a magnitude 2.0 earthquake. So far there were 398 reports of the fireball, according to the American…
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First Images of an Actual Black Hole Coming Soon!
An international collaboration of scientists who are with the Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth size telescope that are set at array sites around the globe has a goal of capturing the first direct images of a black hole. The images will be reported on shipment of hard drives from the South Pole they are now busily…
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Fast Radio Bursts Mystery Unfolds
January 10, 2018 Washington DC At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Astronomers reported on their recent studies of a mysterious source of fast radio bursts from a source three billion light-years away, known as FRB 121102. According to the scientists, the discovery suggests that the strange source is in the close vicinity of a massive…
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Alien Megastructures?
A Possible Answer to the Tabby Star Mystery.
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SUPERMOON January 1, 2018
First Supermoon of the new year is slated as the largest in 2018. I caught it at moonrise.
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BUBBLING RED GIANT
Recently, astronomers have seen giant bubbles churning on the surface of a star beyond our solar system. This is a first in observing our interstellar neighbors. The bubbles are so huge individually, by comparison, that they would extend from our sun to Venus. These astronomers used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope to make…
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A Super Lunar New Year
First Super Moon of 2018!
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Mysterious Rock Comet Came Close to Earth
Mysterious Rock-Comet 3200 Phaethon came close to Earth Friday night, December 16, 2017 The 2017 Geminid meteor shower, by all accounts, was spectacular. It peaked on the mornings of December 13 and 14. The showers awesomeness was probably due to the fact 3200 Phaethon, an object that thought to be the source of the Geminids,…
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The Ursids are Coming!
Don’t forget to checkout the Urid Meteor Shower later this week.