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  1. Mike

    cant find the name of a star system

    This system is a tiny patch of super sense stars. I got an on line live star Map and I'm thinking the stars were too smallto show up lol who knows. If your in the states it shows up 1:00 am Pacific time could be earlier too. Keep in mind this cluster of stars are so small I have to look with...
  2. Vickie

    Have You Ever Seen An Extraterrestrial Spaceship?

    I was curious about how many people here have seen a UFO of the ET kind. I'm thinking just about everyone has at one time or another. My mom who is very skeptical saw two silver saucer shaped ships the other day. She lives on a lake and she said they appeared to be diving into the water. She...
  3. Vickie

    G1- Class Geomagnetic Storm Coming Soon

    CORONAL HOLE TURNS TOWARD EARTH: A large coronal hole is turning toward Earth, and it is spewing a stream of high-speed solar wind. NOAA forecasters expect the stream to reach our planet on Sept. 28-29 with a 50% chance of G1-class geomagnetic storms when it arrives. At this time of year, even a...
  4. Vickie

    A Space Weather Balloon at the Edge of Space

    Last Friday, Sept. 2nd, Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus launched a research balloon from the slopes of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. En route to measure radiation at the edge of space, the balloon's payload snapped this spherical image of the Atlantic Coast of...
  5. Laron

    Aurora over Icelandic Fault

    Aurora over Icelandic Fault Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN, Earth and Stars) The above image is from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day here. I love how much of this aurora was captured. You can find the larger resolution version of this image here. Here is the full...
  6. Laron

    Space Lightning Over China

    "On Aug. 13th in China, photographer Phebe Pan was photographing the night sky, hoping to catch a Perseid meteor. Instead, he witnessed a spectacular bolt of "space lightning." Working atop Shi Keng Kong, the highest mountain peak in the Guangdong province, "I was using a fisheye lens to capture...
  7. Laron

    The Keyhole in the Carina Nebula

    Loving this NASA astronomy photo of the day. Explanation: "The dark dusty Keyhole Nebula gets its name from its unusual shape. The looping Keyhole, in this featured classic image by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a smaller region inside the larger Carina Nebula. Dramatic dark dust knots and...