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Once in a lifetime Comet viewing
Eager sky watchers are turning to the heavens as Comet NEOWISE, one of the brightest comets in a generation, starts climbing ever higher among the evening stars.
A majority of comets fly through the solar system invisible to humans, usually too small and dim to be seen with the naked eye. The last frozen ice ball that gave us a big show was Hale-Bopp, a comet that was visible for nearly 18 months around its closest approach to Earth in 1997.
Officially designated C/2020 F3, Comet NEOWISE was discovered on March 27 and had until this week been visible only to committed comet viewers willing to wake up in the early pre-dawn hours. But on Monday, NEOWISE tipped into the post-sunset sky and has even been spotted by people living near city centers with all the light pollution.
“It’s the first time in 23 years that this is possible,” said Federica Spoto, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You can watch it from your backyard and you don’t need a telescope.”
A majority of comets fly through the solar system invisible to humans, usually too small and dim to be seen with the naked eye. The last frozen ice ball that gave us a big show was Hale-Bopp, a comet that was visible for nearly 18 months around its closest approach to Earth in 1997.
Officially designated C/2020 F3, Comet NEOWISE was discovered on March 27 and had until this week been visible only to committed comet viewers willing to wake up in the early pre-dawn hours. But on Monday, NEOWISE tipped into the post-sunset sky and has even been spotted by people living near city centers with all the light pollution.
“It’s the first time in 23 years that this is possible,” said Federica Spoto, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “You can watch it from your backyard and you don’t need a telescope.”
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1 0 0 3...castle.[ strong-hold.
3 0 9 1.........[..3068 + 3467
.......a s t r o.] Physics has N O vanishing point..)..
Pithy observation alone..provides more Question..
..less FM radio activity...viz.
Black hole sun / sound garden..).
..who knows where Time goes ? / F C C...
Goodbye blue sky / pink Floyd....) Henceforth the bird colonel gives Cardinal Scope to the General Idea.} Nevermore ,} Forevermore. Furthermore..)...)..
Sum where beyond the rainbow is a street made of PAZ.) Pure gold.) Featuring a Throne & another rainbow..} Ezk. 1: 26-28........3. policy of Time / minutemen
1152.counsel of yah.[ 3050....2. 2nd law / muse
1939.. Majesty of....3050......1..y h w h./ U 2.
3091......part 2.} Qodesh physics.....
.....a helluva lot of physics can be spoken in 2 words: TIME RULES.- McBob
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6337..p a z.) fine gold..........5797. Oz. [ Strong x Majesty.
.... epilogue.) Color code of PoP....
Sword of g'd./ Red Crayola
Flame / Laws.
Rainbow Rising / Rainbow
....as above...so below.....) .. standby.
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Nature and nurture....
...as the evidence keeps accruing. Even Abbey Father Mendel's pea plants show the effects of both, if one looks hard, under tight modern experimental conditions.
Ever wonder why few have valid formed memories of events before the age of two years? Or why studied populations of men with heavy genetic loading for violence as adults, rarely show such behaviors, unless they were also bullied, or worse, as boys? Lot's more.
Strict genetic control of human behaviors is a cop out politically, policy-wise, etc., ---always has been.
Shouldn't be at all surprised.
Ever wonder why few have valid formed memories of events before the age of two years? Or why studied populations of men with heavy genetic loading for violence as adults, rarely show such behaviors, unless they were also bullied, or worse, as boys? Lot's more.
Strict genetic control of human behaviors is a cop out politically, policy-wise, etc., ---always has been.
Shouldn't be at all surprised.
India's race to the moon...
I just tuned in to see live coverage of The Indian Space Research Organization (IRSO) Chandrayaan-3 craft that has successfully landed on the moon. Congratulations. Last week a Russian attempt failed and their craft crashed.
Live stream going on now...
Live stream going on now...
Christmas Star 2020...
There was a lot of chatter about the solstice and the 'Great Conjunction' of the near alignment of Jupiter and Saturn happened this evening.
Oh, you missed it? I read it will happen again in 800 years!
While it's considered a phenomenon, I'm a bit disappointed and I was expecting it to have more brilliance.
South Florida had 63F degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
My best view was standing in the open section of a golf course, where it was visible in the southwest less than 20 degrees above the horizon.
"That's it!"
"No, it can't be."
"It's gotta be it... nothing else in sky."
She said "Enough, let's go home!"
"Yeah... Okay."
A few news stories called it the Christmas Star and compared it to the biblical Three Wise Men guided by a star.
Let's talk facts:
It's 2 planets (not a star) and lasts less than an hour. Those guys had traveled a while.
Oh, you missed it? I read it will happen again in 800 years!
While it's considered a phenomenon, I'm a bit disappointed and I was expecting it to have more brilliance.
South Florida had 63F degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
My best view was standing in the open section of a golf course, where it was visible in the southwest less than 20 degrees above the horizon.
"That's it!"
"No, it can't be."
"It's gotta be it... nothing else in sky."
She said "Enough, let's go home!"
"Yeah... Okay."
A few news stories called it the Christmas Star and compared it to the biblical Three Wise Men guided by a star.
Let's talk facts:
It's 2 planets (not a star) and lasts less than an hour. Those guys had traveled a while.
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The Blue Hour...
I'm up really early this morning and checking to see when sunrise starts. Google (on my phone) is around 7:05. I saw a link that described the 'twilight' time between dark and actual sunrise as described to be the blue hour.
Direct sun rays are below the horizon and the blue illumination is the light passing through the atmosphere.
There is a 70% chance of rain today and storm clouds are offshore, so the chance of a beautiful may not work this morning.
Direct sun rays are below the horizon and the blue illumination is the light passing through the atmosphere.
There is a 70% chance of rain today and storm clouds are offshore, so the chance of a beautiful may not work this morning.
Heavenly Bodies
No. This blog is not about supernodels.
I just wanted to let you know about an upcoming celestial event.
Tomorrow 3 planets, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn will rise near the horizon
in very close proximity in the southeast sky around 1:15 am 3/18/2020
and no bright stars will appear near, so they should be quite visible.
If you have one, get your telescope, or binoculars out.
You may also enjoy some close-ups;
I just wanted to let you know about an upcoming celestial event.
Tomorrow 3 planets, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn will rise near the horizon
in very close proximity in the southeast sky around 1:15 am 3/18/2020
and no bright stars will appear near, so they should be quite visible.
If you have one, get your telescope, or binoculars out.
You may also enjoy some close-ups;
Oh Venus !
Named after a goddess of beauty, Venus is our closest neighbor in the solar system and thanks to reflected sunlight, one of the brightest points of light in the night sky.
Because the surface of that planet is very hot and considered inhospitable to life, it has not been the focus of our unending search for other life in the universe. Indeed, attempts to explore the planet have not been very fruitful, as even metals melt upon arrival.
However, at one ancient time, Venus may have been more teeming with life than Earth was at that time. Hundreds of millions of years ago, Venus had oceans. Perhaps it may even today have some life remaining. Astronomers recently found a lot of phosphine within the clouds around Venus. Some rule out other sources of the biomolecule and conclude, that it must be actively produced by microorganism(s) within the clouds. Indeed, since sunlight breaks down phosphine, there must be some current active source. Of course, some others believe otherwise. Nonetheless, life may be much closer, than most predicted. Venus may once again become an area of interest.
Today in The New York Times;
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Because the surface of that planet is very hot and considered inhospitable to life, it has not been the focus of our unending search for other life in the universe. Indeed, attempts to explore the planet have not been very fruitful, as even metals melt upon arrival.
However, at one ancient time, Venus may have been more teeming with life than Earth was at that time. Hundreds of millions of years ago, Venus had oceans. Perhaps it may even today have some life remaining. Astronomers recently found a lot of phosphine within the clouds around Venus. Some rule out other sources of the biomolecule and conclude, that it must be actively produced by microorganism(s) within the clouds. Indeed, since sunlight breaks down phosphine, there must be some current active source. Of course, some others believe otherwise. Nonetheless, life may be much closer, than most predicted. Venus may once again become an area of interest.
Today in The New York Times;
In response to:
Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds
The detection of a gas in the planet’s atmosphere could turn scientists’ gaze to a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life.
By Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis Overbye
Sept. 14, 2020 Updated 11:19 a.m. ET
High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life.
If the discovery is confirmed by additional telescope observations and future space missions, it could turn the gaze of scientists toward one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Venus, named after the Roman goddess of beauty, roasts at temperatures of hundreds of degrees and is cloaked by clouds that contain droplets of corrosive sulfuric acid. Few have focused on the rocky planet as a habitat for something living.
Instead, for decades, scientists have sought signs of life elsewhere, usually peering outward to Mars and more recently at Europa, Enceladus and other icy moons of the giant planets.
The astronomers, who reported the finding on Monday in a pair of papers, have not collected specimens of Venusian microbes, nor have they snapped any pictures of them. But with powerful telescopes, they have detected a chemical — phosphine — in the thick Venus atmosphere. After much analysis, the scientists assert that something now alive is the only explanation for the chemical’s source.
Some researchers question this hypothesis, and they suggest instead that the gas could result from unexplained atmospheric or geologic processes on a planet that remains mysterious. But the finding will also encourage some planetary scientists to ask whether humanity has overlooked a planet that may have once been more Earthlike than any other world in our solar system.
“This is an astonishing and ‘out of the blue’ finding,” said Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an author of the papers (one published in Nature Astronomy and another submitted to the journal Astrobiology). “It will definitely fuel more research into the possibilities for life in Venus’s atmosphere.”
“We know that it is an extraordinary discovery,” said Clara Sousa-Silva, a molecular astrophysicist at Harvard University whose research has focused on phosphine, and another of the authors. “We may not know just how extraordinary without going back to Venus.”.....
Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds
The detection of a gas in the planet’s atmosphere could turn scientists’ gaze to a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life.
By Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis Overbye
Sept. 14, 2020 Updated 11:19 a.m. ET
High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life.
If the discovery is confirmed by additional telescope observations and future space missions, it could turn the gaze of scientists toward one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Venus, named after the Roman goddess of beauty, roasts at temperatures of hundreds of degrees and is cloaked by clouds that contain droplets of corrosive sulfuric acid. Few have focused on the rocky planet as a habitat for something living.
Instead, for decades, scientists have sought signs of life elsewhere, usually peering outward to Mars and more recently at Europa, Enceladus and other icy moons of the giant planets.
The astronomers, who reported the finding on Monday in a pair of papers, have not collected specimens of Venusian microbes, nor have they snapped any pictures of them. But with powerful telescopes, they have detected a chemical — phosphine — in the thick Venus atmosphere. After much analysis, the scientists assert that something now alive is the only explanation for the chemical’s source.
Some researchers question this hypothesis, and they suggest instead that the gas could result from unexplained atmospheric or geologic processes on a planet that remains mysterious. But the finding will also encourage some planetary scientists to ask whether humanity has overlooked a planet that may have once been more Earthlike than any other world in our solar system.
“This is an astonishing and ‘out of the blue’ finding,” said Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an author of the papers (one published in Nature Astronomy and another submitted to the journal Astrobiology). “It will definitely fuel more research into the possibilities for life in Venus’s atmosphere.”
“We know that it is an extraordinary discovery,” said Clara Sousa-Silva, a molecular astrophysicist at Harvard University whose research has focused on phosphine, and another of the authors. “We may not know just how extraordinary without going back to Venus.”.....
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