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Fireball Spotted Over Los Angeles on Wednesday Night
LOS ANGELES — Southern Californians from Santa Barbara to San Diego have reported seeing a fireball that forecasters said was most likely a meteor streaking across the sky. The National Weather Service says the sightings reported starting at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night are most likely associated with the South Taurids (TOHR-ids) meteor shower that has been especially active in early November. Astronomers say the Taurids don't bring big numbers of visible meteors but a high percentage of extremely bright...
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Lightning, Wind Watched for Today's NASA MAVEN Launch to Mars
NASA’s newest Mars mission is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral today at 1:28 p.m. For weeks leading up to today, an Air Force officer has been monitoring weather reports to ensure it’s safe for the probe-carrying rocket to take off. “Everything is looking good so far,” Launch Weather Officer Mike McAllenan, a member of the Air Force’s 45th Weather Squadron, which oversees the launches at Cape Canaveral, told weather.com. “The main weather threat is towards the end of the...
Mid-Atlantic Minotaur Rocket Launch Gives East Rare View
Wright Shumate sent this picture via Twitter. 'My photo of the Minotaur rocket launch and the moon. Taken from North Carolina.' WASHINGTON -- A rocket has streaked along the eastern U.S. early evening sky in an unusual sight as NASA put a smartphone and 28 other tiny satellites into orbit. NASA and the Air Force launched the private Minotaur rocket Tuesday from Wallops Island, Va., in a test flight. The NASA launch pad is getting more use, giving more Americans...
A New Type of Quasar Has Been Discovered, and Scientists Are Baffled
One theory of a newly discovered type of black-hole quasar suggests gas flows into a central black hole. More frequent particle collisions close to the black hole make the gas hot in regions that are closer to the center (shown in blue and white). Regions further away are cooler (yellow and orange). (York University/Patrick Hall) The most luminous objects in the universe keep getting more mysterious. Astronomers have discovered a new type of quasar — an incredibly bright galactic core...
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