Category: Video of the Day
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January 31, 2018 Super Blue Moon Eclipse Video
A view of the total lunar eclipse from Phoenix, AZ where I started filming around 5:20 AM MST. This was nearly ninety minutes of filming of the main event until the moon set behind a stand of trees. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”72″ gal_title=”Super Blue Moon Eclipse”]
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What Is a Blue Moon?
The term has traditionally referred to an “extra” full moon, where a year which normally has 12 full moons has 13 instead. The “blue moon” reference is applied to the third full moon in a season with four full moons, thus correcting the timing of the last month of a season that would have otherwise been expected…
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How Do We Handle a First Contact Scenario?
How Do We Handle a First Contact Scenario? The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets. Here’s a scenario for you… Let’s say that SETI has detected and verified an actual signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence. Regardless of what the source…
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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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2017 Was Record Setting for Warmth According to NASA and NOAA
Recently, both NASA and NOAA have come out with separate reports regarding  2017’s record-setting warmth. Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.90 degrees Celsius) warmer than the…
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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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Phoenix Sets New Goal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
After unanimous approval by the city council, the city of Phoenix has set a new ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. The plan is to cut carbon pollution from residents and businesses, continuing the City’s focus on sustainability over the last several years. This reduction goal…
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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…
