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2 weeks 5 days ago Watch Live - Total Solar Eclipse of July 11, 2010
story by Thilina Heenatigala, Sri Lanka Astronomical Society
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Submitted by Audrey StarPals on December 16, 2009 - 4:04pm
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Submitted by Audrey StarPals on December 16, 2009 - 3:47pm
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32 weeks 4 days ago Stunning image |
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Submitted by Audrey StarPals on November 11, 2009 - 3:23am
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36 weeks 4 days ago Wow! Did you see that fireball?!: Galileo, the Space Cat, loves observing meteors and beautiful constellations from his favorite blanket.Get Out Your Favorite Blanket! It's Leonid Meteor Shower Time! To those who have access to a dark sky, the Leonid Meteor Shower is coming up Tues, November 17.
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Submitted by Audrey StarPals on November 11, 2009 - 2:43am
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37 weeks 2 days ago ASTEROID NEAR MISS: On Nov. 6th at 2132 UT, asteroid 2009 VA barely missed Earth when it flew just 14,000 km above the planet's surface. That's well inside the "Clarke Belt" of geosynchronous satellites. If it had hit, the ~6-meter wide space rock would have disintegrated in the atmosphere as a spectacular fireball, causing no significant damage to the ground. 2009 VA was discovered just 15 hours before closest approach by astronomers working at the Catalina Sky Survey. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20VA;orb=1 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/ |
once again by Wally Pacholka, one of the world's best starry night sky photographers. Wally is a TWAN (The World at Night) photographer and dedicated to capturing remarkable starry night vistas of U.S. National Parks and sharing with others the absolute beauty our universe and our ability to connect with it. Wally's images remind us that our night skies are worth the effort to preserve and protect from light pollution for current and future generations and all of biodiversity.