Cosmology

ATTENTION ALL!  METEOR SHOWER TONIGHT!!  FLAKES OF COMET DUST SHOULD GIVE DOZENS OF METORS PER HOUR!!  Now this is way cool! :) The meteor shower should last into the early morning on Wenesday!  So, set up a chair, grab s drink, and watch the free light and comet shower descending upon you from the great heavens above!  :)  Enjoy this free "gift".....hmmmmm....what's thay saying"?  The best things in life are free?? Well, folks these are the things "they" are talking about! :) Enjoy... Read Full Story

The 2009 Leonid meteor shower will reportedly take place tomorrow – 17th November 2009 and will peak at about the same time too. Sources also say that there is a possibility that the Moon will coincidentally be in its new phase tomorrow, and this will make it among the best Leonid meteor showers to ever take place in recent years. Earth is likely to be going through one of the denser debris streams at around 4 AM EST (1 AM PST), on Tuesday (tomorrow). The Leonids are caused by comet... Read Full Story

If the weather is clear, you will get to see Orinoids meteor showers early Wednesday morning. Meteor shower phenomena occur once every year. Halley’s comet leaves behind its traces in the space in form of debris. The comet rotates around the sun once in every 76 years, and when it does so, it leaves behind huge debris. As the earth rotates, it comes in contact with the debris. The debris then evaporates in the earth’s atmosphere to form meteors which are can be as small as a grain of... Read Full Story

      Meteor showers are like nature's fireworks on the 4th of July. We can expect to see the night sky show of The Orionid annual meteor shower tonight until dawn Wednesday morning. This is an annual meteor shower that we can thank the leftover remnants of Halley's Comet for. Thanks to these lovely tid bits of comet dust we will see dozens of meteors flash us by every hour in the wee hours of darkness. Unfortunately, due to Los Angeles' abundance of pollution in its cities and suburbs... Read Full Story

Vietnam will see one of the best meteor showers in years on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Nguyen Duc Phuong from the Vietnam Association of Astronomy and Space.The Leonid shower may produce up to 500 meteors per hour around the constellation of Leo starting at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, says Phuong, who suggests standing in a dark, open place to observe the dazzling display with the naked eye.According to NASA, North America and countries across As... Read Full Story

Supernovas are the engines of star birth in the Universe. In short, the engines of life. Every ten million years a supernova disperses the cloud  out of which it was formed, catalyzing the birth of new stars in one or more interstellar clouds.  Japanese scientists journeyed to Antarctica to recover evidence of alterations to Earth's atmosphere caused in medieval times by supernovae recorded by scholars - including obscure Irish monasteries where monks later interpreted them signs of the... Read Full Story

One is a Looped Video of a Meteor the other Phoptgraphs were taken between 2:00an and 3:00 am on 11/17/2009 Facing the East. Due to  some overcast in N. E. Tennessee I was only able to get a few shots. My Brother Gary and I both were trying to get shots of the Meteors but it was very hard to do so because of the overcast skies. the longes We stayed out there the more overcast there was. so these are what I got. Read Full Story

      Tonight until early Wednesday morning, the Orionid meteor shower will dazzle wish makers lucky enough to find cloudless, dark skies. Here's a list of common questions and answers about the shower for all you star gazers out there. Where does the Orionid shower come from? The annual Orionid meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through comet debris left by Halley's comet. How many shooting stars may I see? The shower will cause around a dozen "shooting stars" to appear in the... Read Full Story

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What’s Your Reaction? The Leonid Meteor Shower will be at its peak early Tuesday morning, November 17. Original post: Meteor Show November 2009: WATCH Leonid Meteor Shower Preview (VIDEO) (The Huffington Post) Read Full Story