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Super, Blood, Wolf Moon total eclipse

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:23 pm

by GrannyGrottbags » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:13 pm

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A total lunar eclipse greets skywatchers at the end of this week. Don’t miss it, as the next one will not be until 26 May 2021. The Moon will begin...

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Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:23 pm
Space weather preparedness strategy

Last post by steve23 « Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:12 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:47 pm

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I did'nt even know this exhisted for UK. :shock:

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NASA warns of record low temperatures as mini ice age to hit space
Shazma KhanNovember 19, 2018

In an interesting turn of events, NASA has...

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Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:12 pm
Solar Activity

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:10 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:27 am

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Solar activity heads for lowest low in four centuries

The sun's activity is in free fall, according to a leading space physicist. But don't expect a...

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“The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.
Sunspots have been...

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Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:10 pm
Sunspots

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:58 am
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by GrannyGrottbags » Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:48 pm
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RECORD LOW SUNSPOT NUMBERS

For reasons including pure politically correct , NASA has fought a losing battle - against reality - on the subject of...

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More than three months without a sunspot .....
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Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:58 am
Universe

Last post by wittykitty « Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:37 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:31 pm

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Our universe shouldn't exist, scientists say.
The most elite scientists in the world are still struggling to find why exactly our universe didn't...

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Our universe shouldn't exist, scientists say.
The most elite scientists in the world are still struggling to find why exactly our universe didn't...

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Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:37 pm
Increasingly bizzare solar activity

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:44 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:27 pm

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The Sun is behaving erratically and scientists have no idea why. Solar activity is in the process of gradual decline, a change from the norm which in...

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ATMOSPHERIC CANYON ON THE SUN: A large hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, cleaving the Earth-facing side of the sun with a gaseous canyon more...

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Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:44 pm
John Glenn 1921-2016

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:48 pm

by GrannyGrottbags » Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:48 pm

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John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the...

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Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:48 pm
GOES-R

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:04 am
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by GrannyGrottbags » Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:25 pm

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The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and...

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£ How much? ;)

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Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:04 am
Full Super Moon

Last post by daross « Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:37 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:30 pm

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Full moon falls on June 23, 2013 at 11:32 UTC (6:32 a.m. CDT in the U.S.). Thus, for many, the moon appears about as full in the June 22 evening sky...

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Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:37 pm
Meteors

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:10 am
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by GrannyGrottbags » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:39 pm
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The Lyrid meteor shower begins today, as the Earth makes its annual pass through the trail of dust left behind by Comet Thatcher, which last swung...

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'Biggest meteor seen for years' crashes into earth and causes HOUSES to shake as tremor terrifies thousands

Thousands of people reported a bright...
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Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:10 am
Harvest Moon

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:31 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:25 pm

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Have you seen the moon tonight? ;) Its unremarkably beautiful :ymhug:

I don't think my phone camera is properly equipped for night time but,...

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Look up tonight! Spooky harvest moon eclipse will grace the sky - and it won't happen again until 2024

The eclipse occurs when the Earth's shadow...

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Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:31 pm
Tornado Photography

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:10 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Wed Jul 01, 2015 12:18 pm

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The reward for dicing with death: Stormchaser's eye-popping images of tornadoes taken as he pursued them for thousands of miles across the US

Blake...

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Better finish your pint! Stunned drinkers in village pub garden look up to see a TORNADO circling overhead

Photos show tornado circling above small...

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Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:10 pm
Iridescent clouds in Poland - 1st July 2016

Last post by wittykitty « Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:02 pm
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by rephlex » Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:58 pm

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Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:02 pm
Moon

Last post by rephlex « Tue Jun 21, 2016 2:53 pm
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by Snowcat » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:08 pm
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Did anyone happen to notice the moon on Monday night? From where I was it looked really different to what it normally looks like. It looked bigger...

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Strawberry Moon tonight! First for 49 years!
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Tue Jun 21, 2016 2:53 pm
Transit of Mercury

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Sun May 01, 2016 6:41 am

by GrannyGrottbags » Sun May 01, 2016 6:41 am

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You are invited to watch the transit of Mercury with the Royal Astronomical Society, Piccadilly, London, when our solar system’s smallest planet...

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Sun May 01, 2016 6:41 am
Planets

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Wed Apr 13, 2016 6:14 am
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by GrannyGrottbags » Sat May 25, 2013 7:11 pm

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Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this weekend....

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Planet Nine may or may not exist. The evidence for its existence is incomplete, based on behavior observed in outer solar system objects that seems...

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Wed Apr 13, 2016 6:14 am
nasa..........

Last post by whiskeygalore « Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:57 pm

by whiskeygalore » Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:57 pm

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Worth a look

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Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:57 pm
Auroras

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:07 am

by GrannyGrottbags » Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:07 am

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2016 began with an explosion–not only of fireworks, but also auroras. On Jan. 1st, a G2-class geomagnetic storm sparked bright lights around the...

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Sat Jan 02, 2016 9:07 am
Solar System To Scale

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:14 pm

by GrannyGrottbags » Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:14 pm

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Published on Sep 16, 2015

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary...

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Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:14 pm
Alien Planet Weather

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:43 pm

by GrannyGrottbags » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:42 pm

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Sunny with a risk of MOLTEN METAL storms: Weather patterns on alien world beyond our solar system seen for first time

Astronomers have noticed the...

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Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:43 pm
ozone

Last post by whiskeygalore « Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:39 am
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by whiskeygalore » Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:16 am

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Worth a read I think

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Question does the ozone effect the polar vortex !!!

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Last post by whiskeygalore
Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:39 am
Comets

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:56 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:33 am

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The Comet ISON shines like a cosmic skyrocket in a new video from the Hubble Space Telescope as the icy wanderer, which some astronomers have billed...

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Science is allways changing its mind, getting it wrong, moving the goal posts :roll: when the truth of the matter, it apears to me is, because of...

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Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:56 pm
Lightning/ Fireballs

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:38 pm
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by GrannyGrottbags » Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:36 pm

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This is the first time ive seen anything like this too in real life as opposed to a movie ???

Huge lightning fireball caught on camera as it...

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You may have watched thunderstorms hundreds of times before, but it’s unlikely you have ever seen the birth of a lightning bolt, until now.
Two...

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Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:38 pm
Dawns Travels

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Thu Sep 10, 2015 8:27 am

by GrannyGrottbags » Thu Sep 10, 2015 8:27 am

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Intriguing bright spots in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, are coming into...

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Thu Sep 10, 2015 8:27 am
Twin Jet Nebula

Last post by GrannyGrottbags « Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:49 am

by GrannyGrottbags » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:49 am

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A stunning 'butterfly' in space: Amazing Hubble image captures the Twin Jet Nebula spewing out cosmic clouds at 620,000mph

Image reveals the...

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Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:49 am

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