Category: Video of the Day
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MYSTERIOUS FLASH OVER RUSSIA (video)
Russian media reported on a very bright flash that practically turned night into day over a wide section of western Russia on Sunday, January 7. According to some of the reports, “the black sky suddenly turned momentarily deep blue as if it were a bright day.” Some reports stated that there was some earth movement as…
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Electric-Blue Clouds Over Antarctica
There’s an electric blue glow in the skies above Antarctica. The strange glow is coming from noctilucent clouds. That’s according to recent images from NASA’s AIM spacecraft (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere), which monitors these clouds for the whole Earth. The season for night-shining clouds in the Southern Hemisphere is November to April, so they…
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What is a Snowflake?
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth’s atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual…
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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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Oumuamua Update
Back in November, we reported a story about an unprecedented interstellar visitor, Oumuamua, moving through our solar system from interstellar space. Astronomers have taken time to scrutinize the data from the object. They figure that it must have traveled through space for millions of years before wondering into our solar system. The conclusion is that…
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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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BESSIE COLEMAN
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American and the first of Native American descent to hold a pilot license. She also achieved her international pilot license in 1921.
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CUPIC Season One Finale! Episode 10
The introductions are over, it’s time for some serious investigating is the topic of this episode.
