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How to Catch the Peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower
How to Catch the Peak, of the Lyrid Meteor Shower.
CNN reports that the Lyrid meteor shower
will reach its peak overnight on April 22.
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The shower is named after the constellation Lyra.
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According to the American Meteor Society, the meteor shower is best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere along the northeastern sky in the mid-northern latitudes.
CNN points out that this area
encompasses all of North America.
To catch a glimpse of the meteor shower,
it helps to find an area away from
the light pollution produced by cities.
NASA recommends allowing 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust to make spotting meteors easier.
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According to NASA, the Lyrids
have been observed for 2,700 years.
The Lyrids are known for having
bright, fast-moving meteors.
Previously, as many as 100 meteors
have been spotted in a single hour
when the Lyrids reach their peak.
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CNN recommends trying to catch a clearer
glimpse of the meteor shower between late in
the evening on April 22 and dawn on April 23.
This shower is expected to
remain active until April 29.
Following the Lyrids, 2022 will see
ten other meteor showers reach their peak.
The next meteor showers will be the
Eta Aquariids from May 4 to May 5 followed by
the Southern delta Aquariids from July 29 to July 30
NASA , Awards Contracts for Lunar, Fission Power Designs.
On June 21, NASA announced that three suppliers had
been contracted to provide concept designs for
a nuclear fission energy system to be used on the moon.
On June 21, NASA announced that three suppliers had
been contracted to provide concept designs for
a nuclear fission energy system to be used on the moon.
The contracts were
awarded to Lockheed Martin,
Westinghouse and IX. .
TechCrunch reports that each of the companies
will each receive approximately
$5 million for developing the designs.
Those companies will reportedly work
with partners to develop "initial concepts"
to be submitted to NASA.
The project, a partnership between NASA
and the Department of Energy (DOE),
is expected to take about 12 months.
The designs include a 40-kilowatt power
generator capable of operating at that
capacity for at least a decade.
TechCrunch points out that the small generators could help solve some of the challenges NASA faces in setting up a prolonged presence on the moon.
NASA's Artemis program looks to return humans to the moon for the first time in decades and establish a permanent outpost on our largest natural satellite.
According to NASA, the fission generator
project could also have implications
for deep space exploration.
The generators developed through
this contract could be applied to new propulsion
systems used in long-range spacecraft
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Enormous Sunspot, Raises Concerns , After Rapidly Doubling in Size.
'Newsweek' reports that a massive, earth-facing sunspot has doubled in size over 24 hours and has raised
concerns about a potential earth-bound solar flare.
Sunspots form over areas of the sun
where strong magnetic fields exist. .
These tangled magnetic fields can suddenly
reorganize themselves, releasing an explosion
of light and radiation in the form of a solar flare.
On June 20, NASA's Solar Dynamics
Observatory revealed how the sunspot
had significantly grown over the course of a day.
'Newsweek' reports that the massive sunspot has the potential to send an M-class solar flare at Earth.
As of June 21, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather
Prediction Center had not yet issued a solar flare warning.
Solar flares can interfere with
radio communications networks
and navigation systems on Earth.
M-class flares are actually quite common
and tend to cause moderate, short-lasting
radio blackout events.
X-class flares are the strongest type of solar flare and only occur about once every 11 years.
An X20 flare would be capable of causing
a total high-frequency radio blackout for several
hours on the sun-facing side of Earth.
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NASA reports massive solar flare can cause a blackout over Russia & Japan. The Solar Dynamics Observatory of NASA has observed a sudden change in the sunspot.
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The images from the retired telescope provide beautiful images of space dust between four galaxies and near to our milky way galaxy. the images are from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA mission the pictures found are extremely dense and
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NASA Announces a Team , To Study UFOs .
The space agency announced the
project on June 9.
According to NASA, the team will research “events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena – from a scientific perspective.”.
The team will begin its work in the fall, with research expected to last up to nine months.
NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
We have access to a broad range of observations of Earth from space – and that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry. , Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
The team leader, David Spergel, described how they expect to approach the research.
Given the paucity of observations, our first task is simply to gather the most robust set of data that we can, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
We will be identifying what data – from civilians, government, non-profits, companies – exists, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
... what else we should try to collect, and how to best
analyze it, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
This study is in line with the agency's directives because part of NASA's ongoing mission is the search for life in the universe.
We’re looking for the question of whether certain environments are in fact part of, if you want, the ladder of life that got us to where we are, Thomas Zurbuchen, Science Mission Directorate at NASA, via CNN.
We don’t know what makes up 95% of the universe. So there are things we don’t understand, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN.
I hope this study moves us forward to understand these phenomena better, David Spergel, Simons Foundation and NASA Team Leader, via CNN
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Scientists Look to Uncover , the Last Dinosaurs
to Roam the Earth , Before Asteroid Hit.
'Newsweek' recently reported on some of the last dinosaurs that were around when a gigantic asteroid
struck the Earth and caused a mass extinction event.
This event wiped out nearly three quarters of all plant and animal species on the planet, including non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs, as well as many birds and mammals.
The last Age of the Dinosaurs took place
near the end of the Cretaceous Period
at a time referred to as the Maastrichtian.
We mostly hear about the last dinosaurs
that were alive in North America, because
some of the best and only rocks we've
discovered for this moment in time
are in Montana and the Dakotas. , Ashley Poust, Paleontologist from the San Diego
Natural History Museum, via 'Newsweek'.
That's only a very small bit of what
was likely a huge, unknown diversity
of 'last dinosaurs' across the globe, Ashley Poust, Paleontologist from the San Diego
Natural History Museum, via 'Newsweek'.
Two of the most famous dinosaur species
alive during the Maastrichtian were
the Triceratops and the Tyrannosaurus rex.
Remains of these well-known dino species
were found alongside a number of other
dinosaurs in the Hell Creek Formation. .
The heavily armored plant-eater, Ankylosaurus, the thick-skulled
plant-eater, Pachycephalosaurus, and the bird-like
"Chicken from Hell," Anzu, were also among the final dinosaurs.
The heavily armored plant-eater, Ankylosaurus, the thick-skulled
plant-eater, Pachycephalosaurus, and the bird-like
"Chicken from Hell," Anzu, were also among the final dinosaurs.
The heavily armored plant-eater, Ankylosaurus, the thick-skulled
plant-eater, Pachycephalosaurus, and the bird-like
"Chicken from Hell," Anzu, were also among the final dinosaurs.
These would've been some of the
very last non-avian dinosaurs on Earth;
most or all were probably in existence
when that giant asteroid fell out of the sky
66 million years ago and caused
massive environmental disturbances, Matthew Lamanna, Palaeontologist from the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, via 'Newsweek'.
'Newsweek' reports that scientists also know that dinosaurs existed in Mongolia, Madagascar and
Antarctica around the time of the mass extinction event.
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Lego To Start Producing , Bricks in the United States.
CNN reports toy maker Lego intends to
spend over $1 billion building a factory to produce bricks in the United States.
Lego officials announced on June 15 plans to begin building a 1.7 million square foot factory in Virginia.
When the factory begins operations in 2025,
it will employ nearly 1,800 people.
Lego's Virginia factory will be the company's seventh globally and second in North America.
Previously, Lego had a factory
located in Connecticut, though
the facility shuttered in 2006.
Sales of Lego products have experienced
a pandemic-induced boom,
rising 27% in the last year.
More and more families are
falling in love with Lego building and we are looking forward to making Lego bricks in the U.S.,
one of our largest markets. , Niels B. Christiansen, Lego CEO, via CNN.
Experts say Lego's decision to build a factory in the United States helps address clogged supply chains and increased shipping costs.
Our factories are located close to our biggest markets which shortens the distance our products have to travel. , Carsten Rasmussen, Lego COO, via CNN.
Our new factory in the U.S. and expanded capacity at our existing site in Mexico means we will be able to best support long-term growth in the Americas. , Carsten Rasmussen, Lego COO, via CNN
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Shares in companies that make antiviral drugs to fight smallpox and related viruses have soared as monkeypox cases multiply in Europe and North America.
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Health authorities in North America and Europe have detected dozens of suspected or confirmed cases of monkeypox since early May. Britain has confirmed nine cases since May 6, and the United States verified its first on Wednesday in Massachusetts.
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'Super Flower Blood Moon' , Lunar Eclipse , Will Happen This Weekend.
The 'super flower blood moon' lunar eclipse will begin on Sunday, May 15.
It begins at exactly 10:27 p.m. EST and takes about an hour to reach totality.
There is no harm in looking directly at the moon as there is with a solar eclipse.
A lunar eclipse happens as the Earth moves in between the sun and a full moon.
This causes the light that hits the moon to shift in color from gray to red.
The name blood moon is derived from the deep reddish color that is the result of the eclipse.
This moon is also a supermoon, so named because it appears larger in the sky.
Because the orbit of the moon is not a perfect circle, the moon is sometimes closer to the Earth than at other times during
its orbit, NASA, via 'USA Today'.
A supermoon is usually around
7 percent larger in the sky ... .
... and 15 percent brighter than a standard full moon.
According to 'The Old Farmer's Almanac,' 2022 will be host to four supermoons.
The moon on Sunday will also be a "flower" moon.
'The Old Farmer's Almanac' states that a "flower" moon is so named as "flowers spring forth across North America in abundance this month.".
According to NASA, May's supermoon is also known as a corn planting moon and a milk moon.
Moons derive their
names from multiple
sources including Indigenous,
Colonial American and European
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Millions of people are sweltering under Japan's worst heatwave for almost 150 years, in the latest early-season hot weather streak to hit the Northern Hemisphere.. Sky News
A Rare, , 5-Planet Alignment , Will Be Visible This Month.
CNN reports that a rare phenomenon
will occur this weekend as a five-planet
alignment graces the night sky.
CNN reports that a rare phenomenon
will occur this weekend as a five-planet
alignment graces the night sky.
The alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn begins early in the morning hours of June 3. .
It has not
occurred since December 2004. .
According to 'Sky & Telescope,'
the distance between Mercury and Saturn
will be smaller this time than it was in 2004.
In order to spot Mercury, viewers will need binoculars and a clear view of the eastern horizon.
Mercury will reportedly
become brighter and easier
to see as June progresses.
Diana Hannikainen, observing editor of 'Sky & Telescope,' says that the other aligned planets should consistently be visible to the naked eye.
According to Hannikainen,
the best time to see the alignment
is 30 minutes before sunrise. .
The phenomenon will be visible
to people around the world. .
In the Northern Hemisphere,
stargazers should look to the
eastern and southeastern horizon.
Those in the Southern Hemisphere should
look to the eastern and northeastern sky.
On June 24, the waning
crescent moon will join the alignment
between Venus and Mars
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