Witchy weather musings

I'm lazy tonight so you got to do your own work

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:29:00 GMT

Usually I'll post the entire article, but it's hot, I'm crabby, I hate summer, I hate a/c, I hate not being outdoors, the a/c was broken again at work today.... blah blah. So if you're interested, just check out the link. Sorry. I promise to be cheerier come fall. Love, SybilNASA Science News for July 9, 2009Amateur astronomers have photographed NASA's LCROSS spacecraft en route to an October crash landing on the Moon. Observers say the spacecraft is surprisingly e...
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Strange Things in the Sky

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:21:00 GMT

RELEASE: 09-153NASA'S FERMI TELESCOPE PROBES DOZENS OF PULSARSWASHINGTON -- With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomersnow are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cindersknown as pulsars. In two studies published in the July 2 edition ofScience Express, international teams have analyzed gamma-rays fromtwo dozen pulsars, including 16 discovered by Fermi. Fermi is thefirst spacecraft able to identify pulsars by their gamma-ray emissionalone....
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Sea Level Rise -- It's worse than we thought

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:43:00 GMT

From: New Scientist Sea level rise: It's worse than we thought * 01 July 2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy FOR a few minutes David Holland forgets about his work and screams like a kid on a roller coaster. The small helicopter he's riding in is slaloming between towering cliffs of ice - the sheer sides of gigantic icebergs that had calved off Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier. "It was like in a James Bond movie," Holland says afterwards. "It's the most exciting thing I h...
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Volcanic Sunset Alert!

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:40:00 GMT

Space Weather News for June 30, 2009http://spaceweather.comVOLCANIC SUNSETS: The Russian volcano that erupted directly beneath the International Space Station on June 12th is now causing beautiful lavender sunsets across parts of the northern USA and Europe. A plume of ash and sulfur dioxide from the Sarychev Peak eruption is circulating through the stratosphere, and when parts of the plume pass over an area at sunset, the sky fills with delicate white ripples, s...
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40 years later.... we're BACK!

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:56:00 GMT

NASA RETURNING TO THE MOON WITH FIRST LUNAR LAUNCH IN A DECADEGREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral AirForce Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more informationabout the lunar environment than any other previous mission to themoon.The orbiter, known as LRO, separated from the Atlas V rocket carryingit and a companion mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sens...
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