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Post by auntym on Apr 8, 2011 14:51:14 GMT -6
www.spaceweather.com/TENNESSEE FIREBALLTENNESSEE FIREBALL: Space rocks have landed in Tennessee. That's the conclusion of researchers who recorded a brilliant fireball streaking over the Smoky Mountain state on Wednesday evening. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office reports: "On April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT, NASA all-sky meteor cameras detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee. First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force base near Tullahoma, the meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was approximately 2 feet in diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last recorded 30 miles above the town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed of approximately 9 miles per second (32,400 mph)." TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2011 15:16:01 GMT -6
Fascinating how Titan, one of Saturn's significant moons has always intrigued artists. Here is the first modern realistic astronomical painting - Chestley Bonestell's 'Saturn as seen from Titan' painted in 1944. A painting that launched a thousand spaceships. Contrast the Bonestell work, (quite a valuable art piece now) to the April 1, 2011 apod illustration in what artists then and now attempted to depict as scientifically accurate based on the best known information of their times. It seems from the 2011 depiction, the methane rains on Titan have eroded considerably Bonestell's mountain peaks since 1944. Steve apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110401.htmlwww.outer-space-art-gallery.com/chesley-bonestell.htmlwww.bonestell.com/the_chesley_bonestell_archives001.htmDoes anybody remember this movie? I do, it was a pretty good film...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 2:47:24 GMT -6
Tonight while driving home from work I saw an amazing display in the sky overhead.
I have lived in Interior Alaska most of my life. I have seen the Aurora many many times... I have seen green ones (95% of the time it is green). I have seen pink ones. I have seen blue ones. I have seen purple ones.
Tonight I had the highway all to myself at about 12:30 am. I looked up into the sky and saw the familiar shape and movement of the Aurora...
...but it was WHITE!!!!
It was INCREDIBLE!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by skywalker on Apr 13, 2011 8:02:22 GMT -6
What? No pictures?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 11:43:05 GMT -6
There are some beautiful ones on spaceweather.com but they're huge.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 15:04:11 GMT -6
What? No pictures? You need a special camera to get pictures of the aurora... it doesn't show up on a regular camera unfortunately... and besides, I didn't have a camera on me while I was driving... It was still pretty cool though. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 15:07:10 GMT -6
From www.spaceweather.comSUBSIDING STORM: A geomagnetic storm that sparked auroras around the Arctic Circle and sent Northern Lights spilling over the Canadian border into the United States on April 12th is subsiding. At the height of the display, Shawn Malone took this picture from the shores of Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan: For photo and more info, click on the above link.
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Post by sansseed on Apr 13, 2011 15:20:03 GMT -6
I remember seeing a lot more auroras when I was a kid. Yet, when I was a kid I lived out in the country, far from any light pollution and with a clear view of the northern sky. None, of which, I have today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 16:23:11 GMT -6
"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone..."
Thank you sansseed for reminding me that I take the Aurora displays for granted because I see them all the time... there are so many people in the world who do not have the opportunity to see it as often as I do... like that German guy I rang up at the liquor store. He said he came all the way here just to see the Aurora.
Of course an idiotic young man came into the door and interrupted our conversation (we were speaking in German) by marching up to the counter and shouting, "ACHTUNG!" right into my face. Dummkopf.
Edit: Well... at least he was intelligent enough to recognize which language we were speaking... ~rolls eyes~
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 18:27:59 GMT -6
I would love to see them other than in pictures..I am sure they're just amazing
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2011 13:44:36 GMT -6
I would love to see them other than in pictures..I am sure they're just amazing It looks just like this only slower... much much slower... It often has a "rippling" effect, much like a writhing snake... but very slow most of the time. It will fade, then start back up again in a different part of the sky. You never know when or where to expect to see it. The aurora is best seen when it's very cold... like -30 or colder, because when it's that cold there aren't any clouds in the sky because the air is too dense to form clouds. It's also best seen in rural areas away from bight city or traffic lights... like out where I live at the moment. I remember when I was in college, I had three roommates. One from Anchorage, one from Valdez, and one from Colorado. The girl from Colorado was big into snowboarding and outdoorsy-type stuff and thought going to college in Alaska would be a full-time recreational vacation... until it started to get cold of course and she realized she couldn't go skiing when it was -40 because the wind chill from going so fast would rip the flesh off of her face... lol... Anyhow, she told me she always wanted to see the Northern Lights. One night, it was about midnight, I went outside for a cigarette and saw a green glow in the sky. I ran back into the apartment and shouted, "THE LIGHTS ARE OUT! THE LIGHTS ARE OUT!" Of course, my roommate from Valdez and her girlfriend knew what I was talking about because we're all Alaskans. We banged on the Colorado girl's bedroom door shouting "THE LIGHTS ARE OUT! COME OUT AND SEE!" She shouted back, "I don't care! I'm sleeping! It's just a power outage... God you guys!" I stared at the door, processing what she had said for about three seconds. Then both my other roommate and I said in unison, "The NORTHERN lights are out!!" lol...
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Post by auntym on Apr 15, 2011 10:26:27 GMT -6
"Unprecedented" Sandstorms the Size of Germany Charge across Saudi Arabia - Yellow Sand Raining Down Uploaded by ChristiannaGarrett1 on Apr 14, 2011
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Post by lois on Apr 16, 2011 13:12:26 GMT -6
I hate ice storms.. sure glad I don't live in Switzerland, if this is a everyday occurrence there in cold weather...
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Post by lois on May 16, 2011 23:07:21 GMT -6
I have never heard the term carrot sprite..
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Post by skywalker on May 17, 2011 7:37:27 GMT -6
Me neither until Steve wrote about it. I wonder what other weird things are going on here on Earth that we don't know about? Maybe there are broccoli sprites and tomato sprites also.
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Post by auntym on May 24, 2011 12:24:10 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jun 9, 2011 16:09:52 GMT -6
www.examiner.com/space-news-in-national/massive-solar-flare-crashes-spaceweather-com-northern-lights-possible-tonightMassive solar flare crashes Spaceweather.com, Northern Lights possible tonight * June 9th, 2011 4:19 am ET Dennis Bodzash * Space News Examiner Yesterday, the world was abuzz over a massive solar flare that was more like a solar explosion than anything else. With the videos of the blast hitting many non-space news websites, all eyes were on the Sun, or at least videos of it. In fact, Spaceweather.com, one of the web's premier astronomy websites, actually crashed because of too many visitors. Now, after the buzz has subsided a bit, Spaceweather is back up again and the webmaster, Dr. Tony Phillips, has announced that the hardware behind the website has been upgraded to handle increased traffic. So, how's the space weather looking for today? CONTINUE READING BY CLICKING ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Jun 18, 2011 20:12:35 GMT -6
WOW.... watch this cloud spin.... i've never seen this.... Uploaded by greenbananaful on Jun 17, 2011
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Post by swamprat on Jun 20, 2011 7:48:55 GMT -6
Courtesy of WingsofCrystal...Wired Science
Massive, Bubble-Blowing Stars Sculpt Emerald Ring NebulaBy Lisa Grossman June 15, 2011 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech This glowing green nebula gets its ring-like shape from the powerful light of the most massive stars known to exist.The ten light-year-wide nebula, named RCW 120 and imaged by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, is found in clouds of dust and gas near the tail of the constellation Scorpius. It lies slightly above the flat plane of our galaxy, the hazy glow of which can be seen towards the picture’s bottom. To human eyes the ring of glowing dust is invisible, but it shines in the infrared wavelengths Spitzer sees. Blue represents 3.6-micrometer light, green is 8 micrometers, and red is 24-micrometer light. The ring is sculpted by a pair of giant “O-type” stars that lie at the ring’s center, blowing bubbles with the pressure of intense ultraviolet light. Class O stars are very hot and extremely luminous, being bluish in color; in fact, most of their output is in the ultraviolet range. These are the rarest of all main sequence stars. About 1 in 3,000,000 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class O stars. Some of the most massive stars lie within this spectral class. Type-O stars are so hot as to have complicated surroundings which make measurement of their spectra difficult. O-stars shine with a power over a million times our Sun's output. Because they are so massive, class O stars have very hot cores, thus burn through their hydrogen fuel very quickly, and so are the first stars to leave the main sequence. Recent observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that planetary formation does not occur around other stars in the vicinity of an O class star due to the photo-evaporation effect. Spitzer observations have found that many of the Milky Way’s O-type stars blow similar bubbles of glowing gas. The small objects at this image’s right may be similar rings seen at much greater distances across the galaxy. www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/emerald-ring-nebula/
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2011 9:59:32 GMT -6
Really beautiful
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Post by auntym on Jul 12, 2011 14:02:19 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/confusing-cloud-concerns-or-what-cloud-doingConfusing Cloud Concerns Or What is That Cloud Doing?Submitted by Chris Holly on Sun, 07/10/2011 My brother big Mike ( Mike stands over 6 ft 6 inches high - so we always called him big Mike) is visiting me for a few weeks as his teaching job is on summer break. The other day while I was reading on my deck Big Mike decided to spend some time working on my pool filter. We talked for a short time but mainly I read and he worked. I glanced over towards the pool and saw my brother looking up at the sky. I looked up to see what he was looking at The sky was beautiful. It was like the skies I remembered from my childhood. Crystal clear and very blue with huge puffy high clouds drifting slowly over a perfect summers day. My brother pointed to a spot in the sky and said : "Look at that f cloud in the oval ring shape. What is going on there?" I put down my book and stood up so I could follow his pointed finger . He was pointing to a cloud that was much lower than the others. It was a oval white cloud with the center less formed and a bit see through allowing some blue sky to peek through the center. At first glance it seemed perfectly normal. I watched it for a few seconds and immediately realized it was far from normal in fact it was extremely odd.
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Post by auntym on Aug 7, 2011 17:49:50 GMT -6
www.unexplainable.net/Weather/Incredible-Cloud-Face-Wows-Witness.shtml this was on my local news last night.... Incredible Cloud Face Wows WitnessBy Chris Capps 8/6/11 ....... Uploaded by denisfarmer on Aug 1, 2011 Face_1.jpg The shapes of clouds and other natural phenomena have long been a device for interpretation of future events, the reflection on our past, and even indicated the deeper meaning behind the things connected to them. Images of Jesus and other figures from history and mythology have been appearing in objects, and even the clouds themselves are not an exception. But when a towering face took over the horizon in one man's neighborhood he was speechless. And what's perhaps even more interesting is just how the face materialized - as if it were pushing out from the clouds to look down at the city sprawling out in front of it. The face was unlike so many others like it very distinct and almost photorealistic in its appearance. The image was far from anything that we are used to seeing in the sky. In fact, the face was so distinct, that sideburns leading up to mutton-chops at the lower side of the face could be clearly distinguished. A photograph of a person could hardly have been more detailed or convincing when it came to the distinctness of what this face looked like. And when it comes to strange weather formations, don't expect things to slow down any time soon. The weather will be ramping up significantly now after a series of solar flares were released this week. But even in the climate of doom and gloom these clouds can serve to be a bit of a distraction even if it's not directly paranormal in itself. Or is it? In the great scale of the universe humanity has been trained to recognize patterns like the fibanacci sequence which will appear at the smallest levels of nature and then the largest as well. What if there are other patterns, such as the human face which naturally appear in very recognizable ways all the way up to the greatest levels of the cosmos? Perhaps we are actually living as a speck of dust in the eye of a great trans-galactic bearded face. And if that face were to be seen from a sufficient distance, how do we know we wouldn't recognize it as something almost photographically recognizable? CONTINUE READING: www.unexplainable.net/Weather/Incredible-Cloud-Face-Wows-Witness.shtml
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Post by lois on Aug 7, 2011 20:01:51 GMT -6
Looks like George Washingtons profile. Like on the quarter to me but facing the opposite direction. I just experience something strange my self in the sky not more than two hours ago. I tried to send Sky the two videos but they are too long to load on mailbox. Darn.. strange I come on the forum and see this right off.
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Post by auntym on Aug 7, 2011 20:15:10 GMT -6
Looks like George Washingtons profile. Like on the quarter to me but facing the opposite direction. LOL....i was thinking that too lois....in fact i see 2 faces.... the other face looks like either a monster or not quite the back of lincolns head showing his ear in his hair..... ..... weird
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2011 20:53:54 GMT -6
Does look like George Lois..so instead of crop circles the hoaxers are cloud sculpting
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Post by auntym on Oct 18, 2011 19:32:59 GMT -6
Lubbock, TX sandstorm (10/17/11)
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This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 18, 2011 22:02:22 GMT -6
Yup, that's Lubbock all right. I went to school there for several years and duststorms like that are pretty common. The land up there is as flat as a stack of flapjacks and the wind blows incessantly. There are miles and miles of cotton farms up there and in the spring and fall after they harvest the cotton there is just bare earth that gets carried off by the wind very easily. Especially during a dry year like we had recently. Once I went out of town for the weekend and accidentally left one of my windows open just a crack. When I came back everything in my apartment was brown from all the dust.
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Post by auntym on Oct 28, 2011 18:53:29 GMT -6
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/pictures/111025-northern-lights-aurora-borealis-united-states-south/?source=link_tw20111029news-aurora#/northern-lights-aurora-borealis-reach-south-united-states-michigan-trees_42517_600x450.jpgAurora Pictures: Rare Northern Lights Seen in U.S. SouthAll-Sky Auroras Photograph courtesy Shawn Malone If the devil went down to Georgia this week, he must have traded in his fiddle for blood-red auroras. A cloud of charged particles from the sun slammed into Earth Monday, setting off an intense geomagnetic storm that spawned northern lights across the U.S.—even in the Deep South. Sky shows were reported in more than half the 50 states, including Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas, according to Spaceweather.com. Saturated Skies Photograph courtesy Shawn Malone The northern lights seem to create a big red spot amid a sky full of green auroras in a picture taken very early Tuesday from Marquette, Michigan (map). The sun has been ramping up its activity over the past year, heading toward the next maximum in its roughly 11-year cycle. Lights Over Kansas Photograph courtesy Jim Hammer The star-spangled sky over Kansas is interrupted by a rare auroral glow in a fisheye picture taken Monday night. The northern lights weren't visible to the naked eye, according to photographer Jim Hammer. But the sky show came alive in long-exposure pictures, like this one snapped about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Wichita (map). TO SEE MORE PHOTOS & CONTINUE READING: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/pictures/111025-northern-lights-aurora-borealis-united-states-south/?source=link_tw20111029news-aurora#/northern-lights-aurora-borealis-reach-south-united-states-michigan-trees_42517_600x450.jpg
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2011 10:52:46 GMT -6
The sun is about to blast us with some x-class solar flares...look out electronics! There is an enormous sunspot building. AR1339 is one of the largest sunspots in years, and it looks spectacular though backyard solar telescopes. Eric Roel took this picture yesterday from his private observatory in Valle de Bravo, México: Each of the primary dark cores is about the size of Earth, and the entire group sprawls more than 100,000 km from end to end. The sunspot is so big, it's starting to attact the attention of people looking into the sunset. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2011 11:36:38 GMT -6
Wow...
The aurora was out last night while I was driving home... it wasn't anything spectacular though.... just your usual run-of-the-mill green haze.
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