Tag: astronomy
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#MorningMonarchy: November 10, 2016
Pied pipers, cults of personality and a supermoon + this day in history w/the Edmund Fitzgerald and our song of the day by Warpaint on your Morning Monarchy for November 10, 2016.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: War Criminal Roundup, Giant Meteor, Chinese Satellite (Audio)
The FBI clears Hillary as Chilcot clears Blair; a growing number of Americans prefer certain death to Trump/Clinton; and China completes the world’s largest radio telescope.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Americans Prefer Death By Meteor To Clinton Or Trump (Video)
The FBI clears Hillary as Chilcot clears Blair; a growing number of Americans prefer certain death to Trump/Clinton; and China completes the world’s largest radio telescope.
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Circular thinking: Stonehenge’s origin is subject of new theory
from theguardian.com: Whether it was a Druid temple, an astronomical calendar or a centre for healing, the mystery of Stonehenge has long been a source of speculation and debate. Now a dramatic new theory suggests that the prehistoric monument was in fact “an ancient Mecca on stilts”. The megaliths would not have been used for…
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The Shamanic Significance of the Blood Moon and the Green Fire
from theholisticworks.com: Our Feeding the Dog shamanic ceremony this year will take place on the Blood Moon, Saturday April 4th,. You may have been wondering what a Blood Moon is and about its significance with shamanic work? So here’s an article all about it. When I performed the same Feeding the Dog ceremony last year,…
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Rare, Tiny Neutrinos May Have Huge Implications for Astronomy
from latimes.com: The 28 subatomic particles from deep space detected within an Antarctic glacier are mysterious and extremely powerful, suggesting a new way of looking at the universe, scientists say. Together, they contain a tiny fraction of the mass of a single electron. But the 28 neutrinos from deep space detected by an icy observatory…
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Galaxy
from latimes.com: Just 700 million years after the big bang, our most distant known galaxy was a cauldron of star production, churning out new suns hundreds of times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy, scientists say. But it was only this spring, roughly 13 billion years later, that astronomers first glimpsed evidence of this…
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Journey into Darkness: A Newly Discovered Mesolithic Lunar Calendar
from blog.prehistoricshamanism.com: By Mike Williams: “When we think of ancient astronomy, we probably conjure up visions of Stonehenge, or maybe the Mayan calendar stones, but a new discovery in Scotland has eclipsed these by several thousand years. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, living around 10,000 years-ago, constructed a sophisticated calendar at Crathes Castle, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which, although…
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The Paramagnetic Round Towers and Landscape Star Map of Ireland
from whale.to: Published in 1998: ‘Some years before, Callahan had bought Professor Barrow’s Irish Heritage pamphlet on round towers which included a fine map of the still-standing towers. ‘I was lying on a couch looking at the map. There was something very familiar about it – apart from it being a map of Ireland! After…
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Tonight’s Sky: March 2013
“In March, look for the Beehive Cluster and find out how to spot Jupiter and Saturn,” reads YouTube description. A monthly program, “Tonight’s Sky” produced by HubbleSite.org.
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Cloud Spotted on Mars by Amateur Astronomer
Amateur rocks world of astronomy with image of cloud (picture, right) on terminator of Mars. “Wayne Jaeschke, from West Chester, Pennsylvania, noticed the formations which can be seen rising up from the edge of the Martian disk after he took the pictures on March 20,” reports Mail Online. Jaseschke’s find sent astronomers off to investigate…
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Moon and Mars Rising Together After Sunset
The Red Planet is easy to find: On March 7th it’s right beside the full Moon. Go outside after sunset and look for the Moon and Mars rising together in the east.
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10/20 defcon: ops, apps & agony
top egypt ‘facebook revolutionary’ advising #OWS* ‘anti-cheating boyfriend’ app forced to change* video: theater review of ‘the agony & the ecstasy of steve jobs’: the moral issues behind iphone & its makers* was 1883 astro-mystery a near-miss billion ton comet?* does future hold ‘avatar’-like bodies for us?* russians wants to build colony on the moon;…
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asteroid 4 vesta: factoids and vestoids
Asteroid 4 Vesta is the brightest object in the Asteroid belt, sometimes, viewable with the naked eye. German Astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered Vesta, on March 29, 1807, the fourth “minor planet” as they were called to be detected after Ceres, Pallas and Juno. Olbers gave honor of naming Vesta to mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. In…
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eyes on the solar system: free astronomy software
Astronomy software application, Eyes On The Solar System (EOSS), an amazing 3-D visualization tool is available free online! The first step is download a Unity Web Player plug-in and you’re ready to go. You may select a number of tours of the Solar System, which includes more than just planets to see such as spacecraft…