Eyes on the skies Oct. 18th
ORIONID METEOR SHOWER: This weekend, a mild but pretty flurry of meteors will shoot out of the constellation Orion. The source is Halley's Comet. Although the comet itself is far away, ancient clouds of dust from the comet are nearby, and Earth is about to run through them. The best time to look is Saturday morning, Oct. 21st, just before local dawn: sky map.
CORONAL HOLE: There's a gaping black hole on the sun today.
A stream of solar wind flowing from this hole should reach Earth on Oct. 20th or 21st, possibly sparking a geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers, be alert for auroras!
TWIN PILLARS: "This morning at 7:30 AM, my roommate called me on her way to work and told me to look outside," says Julia Keste
r of the State University of New York in Oswego. "What I saw was absolutely beautiful: not one, but two rainbows that looked as if they were shooting out of Lake Ontario and arching over the campus."
Photo credit: Julia Kester in Oswego, New York.
CORONAL HOLE: There's a gaping black hole on the sun today.
A stream of solar wind flowing from this hole should reach Earth on Oct. 20th or 21st, possibly sparking a geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers, be alert for auroras!
TWIN PILLARS: "This morning at 7:30 AM, my roommate called me on her way to work and told me to look outside," says Julia Keste
r of the State University of New York in Oswego. "What I saw was absolutely beautiful: not one, but two rainbows that looked as if they were shooting out of Lake Ontario and arching over the campus."Photo credit: Julia Kester in Oswego, New York.
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