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22 March 2013
Comet Castle
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip (TWAN)
The broad dust tail of Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) has become a familiar sight for many northern hemisphere comet watc... |
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18 March 2013
Comet PANSTARRS Just After Sunset
Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Cook
Have you seen the comet? As Comet PANSTARRS fades, careful observers -- even with unaided eyes -- should... |
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23 December 2012
Comet Hale-Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
Image Credit & Copyright: A. Dimai, (Col Druscie Obs.), AAC
Comet Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997, became much brighter than any surr... |
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27 January 2013
Comet McNaught Over Chile
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard
Comet McNaught of 2007 has been, so far, the most photogenic comet of our time. After making quite a s... |
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7 February 2013
Comet Lemmon near the South Celestial Pole
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory)
Currently sweeping through southern skies, Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6)... |
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26 March 2013
Waterfalls, Auroras, Comet: Iceland
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees)
If not distracted by the picturesque landscape, waterfalls, stars, and auroras, yo... |
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16 March 2013
PanSTARRS from France
Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne
Still looking for that comet? Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) naked-eye appearance in the northern hemisphere is... |
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15 March 2013
CME, Comet and Planet Earth
Image Credit: NRL / SECCHI / STEREO / NASA
Processing - Karl Battams (NRL and @SungrazerComets)
After appearing in a popular photo opportunity with a y... |
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14 March 2013
Clouds, Comet and Crescent Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
In silhouette against the colorful evening twilight, clouds part for this much anticipated magic... |
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1 October 2012
Introducing Comet ISON
Image Credit & Copyright: Ligustri Rolando
Could this dim spot brighten into one of the brightest comets ever? It's possible. Alternatively, the co... |
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16 February 2013
Sweeping Through Southern Skies
Image/Video Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro, TWAN)
For now, Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6), and Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) are sweepin... |
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9 March 2013
PanSTARRS over Parkes
Image Credit & Copyright: John Sarkissian (CSIRO Parkes Observatory)
Sweeping quickly through southern skies on March 5, Comet PanSTARRS (C/2011 L4) follow... |
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5 March 2013
Comets Lemmon and PanSTARRS Peaking
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (ESO)
Two impressive comets will both reach their peak brightness during the next two weeks. Taking ad... |
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AstronomyJupiter Hit By Comet/Asteroid
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George Hall, an amateur astrophotographer was observing and recording Jupiter last Monday (10 Sept. 2012) and he happened to capture what appears to be something colliding against Jupiter. Apparently... |
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FuturologyThe next stage of Evolution?
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I don't believe in deevolution. All evolution is forward. If a comet strikes the earth today and causes major climate changes all living things that survive will begin to evolve into whatever the... |
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AstronomyExcerp: Comets, Meteors and Asteroids
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The solar system and everything in it is 4.6 billion years old. This includes the sun, planets and their moons, comets, meteors and asteroids.
Comets are scraps left over from the formation of the... |
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AliensWhy do people assume Alien lifeforms are smarter than us?
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With the size of the universe and the amount of planets capable of sustaining life, the chances are there is other life i doubt if there's any "smarter" as aliens would have evolved com... |
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FuturologyMaximum Capacity for Earth?
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yet neither the increase in mass nor momentum of collisions every seem to effect the moon's orbit?
that is why that theory is flawed.the most accepted theory i have heard on the moons origin i... |
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ChristianityTwo more Popes shall reign and the End is come
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The Benedictines are also knows as the olivetans and their symbol is the olive branch. That the pope chose the name Benedict is amazingly chilling as is the fact that Ratzinger was born on the day tha... |
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Do we really exist?
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Billions of years ago, the atoms you are made up of were nothing more than space dist, remainants of a star long dead.
Then they met up with the other atoms that became our sun and the planets surr... |
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19 November 2012
Leonids Over Monument Valley
Image Credit & Copyright: Sean M. Sabatini
What's happening in the sky over Monument Valley? A meteor shower. Over the past weekend the Leo... |
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6 November 2012
Methone: Smooth Egg Moon of Saturn
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
Why is this moon shaped like a smooth egg? The robotic Cassini spacecraft completed the... |
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31 January 2013
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
The delightful Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars in the c... |
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3 October 2012
Goat Aurora Over Greenland
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN)
Sometimes it's hard to believe what you see in the sky. During the Shelios Expedition to Gr... |
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