Meteor spotted above Madison, Wisconsin on evening of April 11, 2012. Meteor enters picture at about 20:21:24 (Video Elapsed time starts just after 0:08). A bright green meteor was reported about 8:22 p.m. CDT by numerous sky watchers from Michigan to Wisconsin to Illinois to Iowa to Missouri. A Chicago police officer and others reported [...]
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Bright Green Meteor Streak Visible Wednesday Night from West Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri
Published Wednesday April 11 2012 10:15 pm.
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What Was So Special About Chicago’s Beautiful West Night Sky Sunday Evening?
Published Monday February 20 2012 9:08 am.
Chicago’s night sky on Sunday, February 19 at 8:12 p.m. highlighting (left-to-right) Sirius, Orion, Taurus, Pleiades, Jupiter, and Venus. A clear sky with visibility greater than 10 miles, and without the light of the Moon, created ideal conditions for seeing stars and planets Sunday night. Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. the ideal conditions were [...]
Beautiful Time-Lapse Video of Spectacular Aurora Borealis in Birtavarre, Norway
Published Thursday January 26 2012 5:24 pm.
The skies over northern Europe have been illuminated with an intense display of the northern lights after a week of massive solar storms showered the Earth with radiation. More beautiful Northern Lights from Europe. Birtavarre is a village in the municipality of Gáivuotna – Kåfjord in Troms county, Norway located at about 69° latitude. The [...]
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Possible Earth-Like Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
Published Monday December 05 2011 4:30 pm.
Artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly [...]
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How Close to Earth Was Asteroid 2005 YU55?
Published Tuesday November 08 2011 9:42 pm.
On November 8, 2011 at 23:28 UT (5:28 p.m. CST) the asteroid safely passed 0.85 lunar distances (324,600 km or 201,700 miles) from the Earth. November 9, 2011 at 07:13 UT (1:13 a.m. CST) the asteroid is expected to pass 0.00160 AU (239,000 km; 149,000 mi) from the Moon. During the close approach the asteroid [...]
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Can I Track the UARS Satellite That Is Falling?
Published Thursday September 22 2011 8:41 am.
Screen shot of UARS tracking graphic from n2yo.com at about 8:50 a.m. CDT showing satellite headed over Madagascar (Chicago time). UPDATE: The satellite is reported to have fallen as it was traveling eastward over Canada, the Atlantic Ocean and Africa between 10:23 p.m. CDT Friday September 23, 2011 and 12:09 a.m. CDT Saturday September 24, [...]
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Spacecraft Probe ‘Juno’ Begins 5-Year Journey to Jupiter
Published Friday August 05 2011 12:44 pm.
NASA has launched a robotic explorer to Jupiter at 12:25 EDT on August 5, 2011. The spacecraft, named Juno, blasted off aboard an unmanned rocket Friday from Cape Canaveral. It will take Juno five years to reach the largest planet in the solar system. Juno is a NASA New Frontiers mission to the planet Jupiter, [...]
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Video: Final Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor
Published Tuesday May 17 2011 8:45 pm.
May 16, 2011 at 8:56 A.M. EDT Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canavral, Florida. International Space Station assembly mission which will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the ELC-3 to the space station. This will be the final mission of Endeavour. Originally thought to be the last space shuttle [...]
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Booster Rocket Cam: NASA Releases Booster Rocket Tapes
Published Thursday March 03 2011 8:19 pm.
A booster camera gives a unique look at the separation of the twin solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank as the shuttle Discovery and crew head into orbit for a 2-day journey to meet up at the International space station. Video shows a camera placed on one of the rocket boosters, which separates from [...]
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AWESOME VIDEO: Space Shuttle Viewed from Passenger Jet Departing Orlando
Published Monday February 28 2011 5:49 pm.
Flying from Orlando, Florida, a passenger from in an airplane had the rare opportunity to be able to watch Discovery’s final launch as it embarks on STS-133. Passengers on the right side of a jet aircraft had a view of the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on its final launch on February 24, 2011. [...]
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VIDEO: Shuttle Discovery’s Final Launch, Foam Falls Off After Launch
Published Thursday February 24 2011 6:07 pm.
VIDEO FEB 24 2011: NASA’s most traveled space shuttle took off on its final voyage after nearly three decades of service. Discovery’s journey to the International Space Station marks the beginning of the end of the shuttle era. Only two more missions are left. Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the [...]
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‘Shooting Star’ Meteor Sighted Over Chicago, Indiana
Published Wednesday January 19 2011 10:53 pm.
A bright meteor with a greenish tint was reported Wednesday night just after 8:00 p.m. A full moon with 100% illumination also shined Wednesday The last big meteor visible in the midwest and Chicagoland was over southwest Wisconsin on April 14, 2010 at 10:02 p.m. The flash was caught on several surveillance video cameras (See [...]
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