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• How to Catch This Week’s ‘Ring of Fire’ Annular Eclipse

  
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  A perfect ring of fire captured by Kevin Baird on May 20th, 2012 from Bluit, New Mexico. (Credit: Kevin Baird /Universe Today flickr Group). The first solar eclipse of 2013 is upon us this week, with the May 10 th annular eclipse crossing northern Australia and the Pacific.(...) Read the rest of How to Catch ...
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• How to Know if a Man Truly Loves You

  
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  We must always consider this phrase  ”action speaks louder than words”. Watching man’s actions will always be the main factor on telling if he really loves you or not.  A man can say everything he could tell on how much he loves you, but if his actions do not back up his words, then you will just know that ...
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• Altaf pays tribute to People for observing mourning

  
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  KARACHI :  Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has paid rich tribute to people of Sindh for observing a peaceful day or mourning in the province to express solidarity with the victims of bomb blast near MQM head offices in Azaizabad on Saturday. He particularly paid tribute to traders, industrialists, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Observing Report 1st May 2013 (Mayday sunspots)

  
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  Better late than never... Plenty of significant active regions on display. Things have moved on (around) a bit since then but theyre still worth a photo just before sunset. Therell be no pics taken here today - were under typical Bank Holiday Weekend rainclouds    Sun (01/05/2013).Six stitched images from the DMK ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sinus Iridum

  
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  Andrew was practicing is moon shots with his new camera and shares a look at Sinus Iridium. The name Sinus Iridum is Latin for “Bay of Rainbows” and is basically a lava plain of Basalt . It is a huge crater that formed on the edge of Mare Imbrium , measuring about 242 miles by 157 miles (400 km by 260 km). The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earth’s Vital Signs

  
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  Credit: NASA NASA launched the Earth Observing System’s flagship satellite “Terra,” named for Earth, on December 18, 1999. Terra has been collecting data about Earth’s changing climate. On February 24, 2000, sensors on NASA’s Terra satellite began opening their shutters and making their first observations. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Observing Report 23rd April 2013 (Another huge sunspot group)

  
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  AR1726 is another biggie - more than 150,000 km from end to end. Its "going around the corner" due to the Suns rotation, so current views of it are foreshortened. It makes an interesting target just before sunset, if you do pop out for a peek at it please mind yer eyes!   Active Region [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Chloe Sevigny hates LA like a New Yorker (video)

  
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  The main twist is that its a put on — or is it? — and pretty amusing if you stay with it through the additional twists toward the end. The film was made by Tara Subkoff, the fashion designer who appeared with Sevigny in "The Last Days of Disco." It was posted by MOCA TV, hat tip to Curbed LA : "Would you like to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is who will buy LAT bigger than who will be mayor?

  
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  Harold Meyerson, the former LA Weekly political columnist, argues in a Washington Post column that the choice of the next mayor is only the second-most important local question in Los Angeles these days. "The most important, by far, is who will buy the Los Angeles Times," he writes in a piece that mainly sounds alarms ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copernicus

  
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  The region around crater Copernicus. Click for larger. Credit: Andrew Andrew took this image of the Copernicus, the very prominate crater just north of the lunar equator. The crater is 56 miles / 93 km across and is some 11,400ft / 3,760 meters high. The central peaks rise to around 1200 meters. I always like the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Families are mightier than legislation

  
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  I generally try to avoid ranting here, but Ill do just a bit of that today. In the past couple of years, there have been a lot of tragic acts of violence, such as the one this past week in Boston.  According to what were told by the media, there is a thread between the perpetrators of violence:  they all had family ...
  4 weeks ago

• Observing by Degrees

  
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  In this image of Jupiter, the Moon, and Venus taken on February 26, 2012, Jupiter and the Moon are less than five degrees apart and the Moon and Venus (below) are about 12 degrees apart. Credit: Kelly Kizer Whitt Often when I’m discussing what gorgeous sky events you should be on the lookout for, I describe them ...
  4 weeks ago

• Astrophoto: Space Station Flies Through the Moon!

  
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  The orbital path of the International Space Station appears to take it through the Moon, as seen from the UK on April 16, 2013. Credit and copyright: Dave Walker. What a great image! Astrophotographer Dave Walker combined seven 30-second shots of the ISS as it cuts through the sky, and it appears to slice right ...
  4 weeks ago

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