Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2014-2015
As you may know, this year is a Sabbatical Year in the Jewish Calendar. Starting next September 29, 2008, a new Sabbatical cycle will commence. It will run for seven years and conclude with another...
View Article‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Visible April 14-15, Beginning Rare...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) Just in time for tax day, which may feel like trying to squeeze blood from a rock, the moon will appear blood-red in a total lunar eclipse on the night of April 14th and...
View ArticleFull lunar eclipse in September
Zodiac constellations this month include Sagittarius (the archer), Capricorn (the goat) and Aquarius (the water-carrier), and sinking into the west is Scorpio (the scorpion) with Saturn, our only...
View ArticleTotal Lunar Eclipse! September 27, 2015 (Southern California)
... Public Star Party begins 2:00 p.m. EVENT BEGINS 6:30 p.m. Livestream broadcast begins 6:30 p.m. Moon rises at Griffith Observatory 6:45 p.m. (Moon in partial eclipse) Totality begins 7:11 p.m....
View ArticleCosmic Cycles, not Carbon Dioxide, Control Climate
Those who think the political war on carbon will cool the globe or keep climate stable need to study climate history. Temperatures on Earth dance to a cyclic rhythm every hour, every day, every month,...
View ArticleGet ready for the eclipse that saved Columbus
The Moon will turn an eerie shade of red for people in the western hemisphere late Wednesday and early Thursday, recreating the eclipse that saved Christopher Columbus more than five centuries ago. In...
View ArticleLunar eclipse to occur Wednesday night - Last lunar eclipse in years (until...
LOS ANGELES - The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon. Skywatchers viewing...
View ArticleHardy Earth Bacteria Can Grow In Lunar Soil
Hardy Earth bacteria can grow in lunar soil 00:53 14 March 2008 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga, Houston A hardy life form called cyanobacteria can grow in otherwise inhospitable lunar soil,...
View ArticleHow Lunar Soil Could Power the Future (helium-3)
The moon is once again a popular destination, as several space-faring nations are talking about setting up bases there. One reason would be to mine fuel for future fusion reactors. The fuel in this...
View ArticleChina's Lunar Probe Makes Planned Crash Landing [Hope for Chang'e?]
China's lunar probe, the Chang'e I crashed on to the surface of the moon on Sunday, marking an end to the first lunar mission by the country. The landing served as a way to pave the way for future...
View ArticleScientists save India's moon mission from failure
NEW DELHI India's only satellite orbiting the moon came close to failure after overheating but scientists improvised to save it and have achieved more than 90 percent of the mission's objectives, an...
View ArticleVideo Game Developer Qualifies for Million Dollar NASA Prize
Video game developer John Carmack, better known for his work on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, has qualified for a million dollar prize from NASA. America's space agency challenged the nation's brightest...
View ArticleThe Oldest Lunar Calendar on Earth
Aurignacian Lunar Calendar Photo - Anonymous / Dons MapsThe Oldest Lunar Calendars and Earliest Constellations have been identified in cave art found in France and Germany. The astronomer-priests of...
View ArticleGore Says Water on Moon Proves Lunar Warming, Requires Action to Reduce...
NASA announced that water was discovered on the moon, and Al Gore has indicated that this shocking news shows that lunar warming is happening and could have devastating effects if we donât take...
View ArticleCanadian astronomer spots Soviet rover on moon
An astronomer at the University of Western Ontario has found a Soviet moon rover in recently released images from a NASA satellite. Phil Stooke combed through data and images of the moon's surface from...
View ArticleSolving A 37-Year Old Space Mystery
A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon. Phil Stooke, a...
View ArticleBIG LUNAR ECLIPSE..(Saturday morning, June 26th)
This Saturday morning, June 26th, there's going to be a lunar eclipseand for many residents of the USA, it's going to be a big one. The eclipse begins at 3:17 am PDT (10:17 UT) when the Moon enters...
View ArticleAmazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night (Heads Up!)
For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the...
View ArticleChina plans to build lunar research base
China will carry out an unmanned lunar landing around 2017 before making manned lunar landings and building research bases on the moon, said Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's lunar probe...
View ArticleGovernment sues Apollo 14 astronaut over lunar camera (Edgar Mitchell)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government has sued a former NASA astronaut to recover a camera used to explore the moon's surface during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission after seeing it slated for sale in a...
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