12 posts tagged “inspirational music”

Hot Comet
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Asteroid 2007 TU24 flew past Earth yesterday only 344,000 miles away. In Utah, Patrick Wiggins took 26 quick exposures through his 14-inch telescope and caught the space rock streaking among the stars of Perseus.
As 2007 TU24 passed by, the giant Arecibo radar in Puerto Rico illuminated it with powerful radio pulses and obtained a rough image of the craggy 250m-wide rock. More radar observations are planned for Feb. 1-4, so the view may improve. .
18 sec. video:
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Solar Eclipse
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On Thursday, Feb. 7th, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, producing a solar eclipse over New Zealand, most of Antarctica and parts of Australia: map, timetables. It is not a total eclipse; the Moon will only partially cover the solar disk. Nevertheless, the event promises some beautiful moments. For instance, the partially-eclipsed Sun will dapple the ground with crescent-shaped sunbeams. Observers in New Zealand and Australia should look in the shadows of leafy trees for this lovely phenomenon. On the barren slopes of Antarctica, scientists and explorers can produce the same effect by letting the sun shine through, say, the latticework of a snowshoe.
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SOLAR ECLIPSE
Troy Arkley
Image taken:
Feb. 7, 2008
Location:
Wellington, New Zealand
The solar eclipse on Feb 7th 2008. Used a 130mm Meade reflector with eyepiece projection and a red filter between the eyepiece and Sony DSC-W100. Peak coverage from Wellington was about 62%.

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Sirius is the brightest star in the night-time sky with a visual apparent magnitude of -1.47.
The two stars, Sirius A and Sirius B move around each other, constantly exchanging particles.
Every 49.9 years, Sirius A and B, come as close together as their orbits allow, creating huge magnetic storms between them. As they approach each other, the stars both begin to spin faster as tidal forces become stronger, finally flip-flopping over, actually trading places with each other. This energy is eventually released to flow on magnetic field lines to the Sun, which transmits it like a lens to all the planets.
Sirius Sisters
(Sunica Markovic)
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"...... some strange lights appeared in the sky over my house," reports Hiroaki Ohno of Fukushima, Japan. "They had neon colors and were brighter than Mars or Capella." The slowly-changing apparition persisted for more than an hour and he had time to take several pictures using his Canon 40D.
What were these celestial luminaries?
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Glow
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