bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
"An eclipse appears total only while you're directly in the moon's shadow. Normally the darkness lasts only a few minutes." [via Futility Closet and Milena]
Learning Curve on the Ecliptic (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
From a list of events which have occurred on 27 September through the years, I noticed that the stage musical "Hair" opened its London run on 27 September 1968 . There had been a total solar eclipse five days before, at 29 Virgo . During the eclipse, and the period between the eclipse and the show's opening, Uranus (ruler of Aquarius) lay at 29 Virgo the degree hit by the eclipse. As the show's best...
V's spot (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Wow. Sometimes, I look at these pictures and composites and marvel at the photographer's skill and passion..... Found, at APOD for 20 Sept08.... a composite of the solar eclipse that occured on 1 Aug... Too cool!
Rage on Omnipotent (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Stunning photo derived from 55 different frames. I wish I knew how to create this kind of thing, and had the opportunity to do so.
kalebeul (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Tully, Letters written during a ten years’ residence at the court of Tripoli (1819): June 12 1788 To you, my dear friend, who are always alive to the beauties and effects of nature, I cannot omit describing what an extraordinary impression an eclipse makes on the uninformed part of the inhabitants of Barbary. Of this we had [...]
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
“The NASA STEREO spacecraft sees the disk of the Moon pass in front of the Sun in a view never seen before by human eyes.” For more videos, see The Bad Astronomy channel on YouTube, which we’ve added to our collection: Intelligent Life at YouTube: 70 Educational Video Collections. ShareThis
The Science Creative Quarterly (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The world is going to end on December 21st 2012. How do I know this? Because the Mayans said so and the Mayans pretty much knew it all; these are people that calculated the length of a year to a thousandth decimal place, predicted all future lunar and solar eclipses and invented gravity*. [...]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Kuwait, Aug 24 (IANS) The Islamic holy month of Ramadan will start Sep 1, according to a leading Kuwaiti astronomer.Mona Ahmed Anbar, director of astronomy and space sciences at the Kuwait Science Club, said in a statement that the solar eclipse that occurred in the month of Shabaan (the month preceding Ramadan in the Islamic [...]
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
China’s lunar satellite survives eclipse China’s first lunar satellite, which has been orbiting around the moon for nearly nine months, has withstood the test of a solar eclipse that cut its solar energy supply, state media reported Monday. Scientists altered the Chang’e 1’s orbit and temporarily turned off some functions before losing contact with the satellite for [...]
ONE INCH PUNCH (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
A man and his camel walk past as the sun is blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse in Gaotai, Gansu province, on August 1, 2008. Via Activate.us Technorati Tags: camel, China, Gansu, solar eclipse
merinews (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
A lunar eclipse that follows a solar eclipse is critical to mankind. There are beliefs that follow it. While the US remains unaffected by the occurrences of the eclipses, the Asian nation will highly be transformed. It could be for or against it.
John Nack on Adobe (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
The Big Picture features some terrific images of this month's total solar eclipse. Edward Burtynsky, known for chronicling humans' impact on the planet, is experimenting with carbon transfer printing in hopes of making photographic prints that last 10,000 years....
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Eclipses of the sun and moon usually come in pairs. A solar eclipse is almost always accompanied by a lunar eclipse two weeks before or after it, since in two weeks the moon travels halfway around its orbit and is likely to form another almost-straight line with the Earth and sun.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
In English football's equivalent of a solar eclipse, both Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate have declared themselves fit for the start of the new season.
UncommonSense (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
NASA's Terra satellite was rounding the top of the globe, making its way from the eastern tip of Siberia and across the Arctic Ocean towards northern Norway and northwest Russia, when it captured this unique view of a total solar eclipse on Aug. 1, 2008. In the area shown in the image, the sun was completely obscured for about two minutes. As Earth rotated, the shadow moved southeast across
