Whether you receive an Easter basket in late March or April depends not on Peter Cottontail, but rather the lunar cycle. The date of Easter, according to the Christian Bible, must fall on the Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal- or spring- equinox. Some years, Easter seems […]
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Beautifully Destructive Nacreous Clouds
Sightings of colorful nacreous (or polar stratospheric) clouds are well above average in the UK and Ireland. Common during the winter in northern regions such as Scandinavia and Canada, many who witnessed the phenomena for the first time mistakenly reported the clouds as aurora borealis (the northern lights). However, the […]
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Evidence of Mysterious Planet Nine
Astronomy textbooks may have to be written again to include nine planets as Planet Nine emerges to be a near truth. Through mathematical modeling and computer simulations, researchers at Caltech believe a ninth planet orbits 20 times further away from the sun than Neptune, allowing for an orbital period of […]
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History Flies Across the Sky as Kosmos-1315 Reenters the Atmosphere
On August 30th at 11:00pm Hawaiian time, the Kosmos 1315 satellite reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over the islands of Hawaii. The satellite’s reentry reflects the historic race to space between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. On October 13th, 1981, the USSR launched Kosmos 1315 […]
