Other
Recent Stories:
Coronation
Fireworks
(Spaceweather) – The Sun exploded in
perfect sync with entrance of King Charles II…
Can ET Hear Us?
(SETI) – Not until our broadcasts get
a little stronger…
Death Star (Keck)
– Think you’ve got bad transits? Try this one, the end, my
friend…
Ring Around
Quaoar (NY Times)
– Rings around outer planets are common, but this one
shouldn’t be there. The
planet’s discoverer Mike Brown is baffled…
Strange Tides
(Spaceweather) – The Moon’s gravity affect’s the
Earth’s plasmosphere, but
offset at 90 degrees, like gravity is acting like a current, affecting
a
magnetic field at right angles, a la Faraday…
Galactic Shock
(NRAO) – There are sounds in space –
if you’re in the right scale -- this one as big as the Milky Way
itself…
Leap Year: On The Horizon (NY
Times)
– Pre-Aztec culture kept exact calendar by notches on the
horizon…
Sing-Along-Sun (Spaceweather)
–Turns out the Sun has two overlapping cycles, sung like a round,
and not 11
years but 17…
Mars
Tsunami (PSI) –
Viking Lander
sat down on the edge of a tsunami from 3 ½ billion years old
three kilometer
asteroid strike ago, like the one that killed the dinosaurs…
Killer
Asteroid (Noirlab)
– Big, and crosses
Earth’s orbit…
Here a Henge,
There A Henge (Daily Grail) – Far apart in
space, synced
in time, what made them do it?
Synchronization
–
(Big Think) all
sorts of systems, from crickets tp fireflies to humans to planets all
mode lock
and roll into the same beat. How is it done, is this as above, so
below, and
around the corner, too? We’ve been on this track for years…
Crust Afire (Spaceweather)
– The Earth’s whole crust went electric as
gamma ray burst like
never seen before made the whole planet pulse with electricity…
Stonehenge
and Japanese Stone Circles
(Smithsonian) – There seems to have been a time when everybody
just up and did
it, independently…
Dung Beetles (Spaceweather)
– They can navigate by the stars…story has been around for
a while, but
obscure…
Spanish
Stonehenge…
(CNN) --
…arises from the deep, like the cathedral
engloutie…
Betelgeuse Blast (Spaceweather) –
If our Sun did this,
we’d be toast…
Earthquake Balloons (SpaceWeather)
– Listening for
quakes, in the high atmosphere. Can it be done on Venus?...
Ducking
for Cover (Spaceweather) –
During a magnetic storm, some places are better to be than
others…now there’s a
map, to see where to flee…from and to…
Roaming
Black Hole (NASA) – Cast out into
darkness,
it’s
barreling through space, invisible. This one isn’t about to
gobble us up, but
there are lots more, unlocated…
Pale Uranus (Noirlab) –
Why is Uranus so much paler than Neptune, when they’re
made of the same stuff? It’s haze. “Excess
haze on Uranus builds up in the planet’s
stagnant, sluggish atmosphere and makes it appear a lighter tone than
Neptune.”
Turns out Neptune is the speedier one and Uranus is in a fog.
Astrologers take
note
Stonehenge Goes
Deep (Independent) – They were
doing more than
looking at the skies, and for thousands of year earlier…
Volcanic
Heat
(NASA)
– A really choice eruption right about now would
make global warming look chilly by comparison. If the Earth outgases,
species
vanish wholesale…short but spectacular is OK, but any more
spells doom…
Sunspot Quickstep (Spaceweather)
– This
cycle’s sunspot
activity is way ahead of the curve, with chock-a-block solar storms
piling on
each other long before predicted…
Oldest
American Sun Calendar
(Science Alert) -- Not
quite as old as Stonehenge, but the first
in the Americas, this site isn’t mysterious or arcane. It’s
a series of markers
– you stand back at the official spot and watch sunrise (or
sunset) and it will
tell you exactly was day it is. No mumbo-jumbo, just a nice, clear date
stamp
to help run your budding agro-civilization…
Mercury’s
Tail (Spaceweather)
– The
planet has a sodium trail millions of miles long, like a comet, salty
old
sailor…
Storms Ahead (Spaceweather)
– Here’s how the
Sun
spins off its big blasts, which form spiral fronts that sweep past
individual
planets as they bear…
Falling
Out of the Sky (Spaceweather)
– The sun is shooting down
dozens of our satellites, with only a modest geomagnetic storm…a
cautionary
tale…
Saturn Afire (Keck) –
Poles are aflame with radiance –
not from the solar wind (like us), but super yin-yang winds that light
up the
planet and cloak its rotation rate…
Our Champagne
Bubble (NY Times)
– You know, the one our whole solar system is in…linked 3D
graphics show all…
You Think Pluto
Is A Planet? (NY
Times) – Or Eris? Or any of the other big newbies? The Gray
Lady wants to
know…
Gravity Moves
Us (PhysOrg) –
Yes, we do move in sync with the Sun and Moon (at least) at large down
to
cellular levels…
Heating
Up
(Spaceweather)
– The solar cycle is putting out way beyond
expectations, looks like climate change may be a solar-system-wide
phenomenon…is
more mass
excitement on the way?...
Lighthouse
in
the Sky (ICRAR)
– Is it a dwarf, a pulsar, a magnetar, something else?
Newly-discovered
flashing beacon is like none other…
Rogue
Swarms (ING)
– The idea of just one small, exiled
planet, ejected from its star system, was unsettling. Now here’s
seventy of
them, and giants, crowding a single area, homelessness on a cosmic
scale…
Malayan
Megaliths (Cilisos)
– Ancient standing stones that trace the skies and memorialize
are everywhere,
turns out Malaya is covered with them…it was a trend, way
back…
Double
Helix (NRAO)
– Some astrologers will be
gratified to hear that the DNA shape does, indeed, exist at macrocosmic
levels…
Feeding Monster
(ICRAR) – Seen from here, this
nearest
active black hole is sixteen times the width of the full Moon, and
it’s tearing
up the sky…
Covid Vax By
Sign (SLTrib) –
Scorpios and Virgos lead the way in not getting vaccinated in Utah.
And, those
signs are proportionately more likely to be
in Utah…
Life’s Global
Antennae (Labroots) –
Microbes are connected with nanowire filaments that conduct electrical
signals.
Nothing would be more supersensitive to incoming electromagnetic and
gravitational variations, the global receiving dish that connects
upward to the
rest of us.
Sounds from
Space (Chandra) –
Galaxies, stars, nebula turned into sound by Chandra telescope…
Blue Moon
(Sky and Telescope) – For once and
for all, let’s get this definition straight…from the pages
of Sky and
Telescope, who screwed it up to begin with…
Hot Jupiter Explained
(Keck) – 800 degrees F in the upper
atmosphere, what gives? Turns out Sun-driven auroral discharges heat up
what
should be way sub-zero, like ours. Could that happen here, as Sun
activity
increases?
Spots Rising
(Spaceweather) – Solar max may come
early, the Sun heating up faster than expected just like things down
here on
Earth…
Animals Steer
By Stars (NY Times)
– From dung beetles to seals, experiment show we’re not the
only ones using the
sky to guide us…
Antikythera
Update (BBC)
–
Nice film short on this remarkable astronomical device, as its secrets
continue
to reveal themselves…
The
Pulsing Sun
(NASA) – Gigantic
rhythms of sound come boiling out of our star as it whirls and tugs its
inner
boiler from deep inside…
Moon
Trackers (The Scotsman) – Moon-tracking
monoliths on Mull are
dusted with
cracked quartz to illustrate unknown rituals…
Moon
Floods (Reuters)
–
Moon’s “wobble” will
double flooding in
already-drenched Europe…
Giant Comet
(Spaceweather) – As big as a minor planet,
three times the size of record-breaking Hale-Bopp,
it’s on its way but will only reach
Saturn…
The Next Cycle
(NY Times) – Scientists are awaiting
the blossoming of the just-beginning sunspot cysle with bated breath.
It could
be unusually strong when our vulnerability is unusually
weak…that depends on
how soon the
terminator event occurs…
Scattered
Showers (SETI)
– Like once in 4,000 years…but from ancient, and
dangerous, comets. And if you
want to know what’s coming at you right now, check this totally
cool
interactive
meteor map…
Comet Mercury
(Spaceweather)
– The planet nearest the Sun is streaking like a comet, leaving a
sodium trail
lighting up the sky. If comets are passing messengers of the gods,
Mercury is
that way full time...
Solar Storm Shutdown
(Spaceweather) – If you were
communicating over short wave, anywhere in North or South America,
suddenly,
you weren’t – in what sounded like a massive tsunami…
The Great Storm
(Spaceweather) – The 100th
anniversary of when wall plugs erupted and communications went
down…
Storm Tracks
Across Time (JSAWASC)
– We know where the great planetary patters were over the
centuries, but how
about the great solar storms? That history is taking accessible shape
with this
500-year timeline. Take a look, esp. at Fig. 1…
Internal Waves
(NASA) – Where the Moon's gravitation
pumps the oceans up and down on subsurface structures, huge moving
waves are
formed, with major consequences…
Vesta Hits
Botswana (SETI)
– An asteroid spun off by Vesta just crashed into Africa...
Eclipses Au-Go-Go (Spaceweather) –
Jupiter’s moons will
be eclipsing, along with others all over the solar system…
Spanish
Stonehenge
–
(mymodernmet) – Astronomical
observatory revealed after being underwater…
Solar Storms
Beach Whales (Spaceweather)
– One we missed from last year…the weather in space can
make whales get lost
and fatally run aground…
Uranus
Emits X-Rays
(Chandra) -- …of two different origins,
at least, partly the result of its cosmic weirdness…
Double Threat
(Spaceweather) – The chance of major,
disruptive geomagnetic storms just doubled…
Switchbacks
(NASA) – The two-million miles per
hour wind blast from the Sun flips and flops its magnetic polarity,
like
ongoing slaps in the face, on its way to buffet us here on Earth…
Gears, Gears
(Ars Technica) – Even more of the
workings of the ancient Antikythera planet-tracking device has been
revealed…
Zodiacal Light
(NASA) – That faint foreplay at dawn
is Mars’s doing, turns out…
The Moon’s Tail
(NY Times) – At new Moon, our
companion surrounds us with sodium…
Lunar Link
(Medical News) – With menstrual
cycles, yet another look…
Sleepless Again
(Washington Post) – Full Moon keeps
you up, another new study reveals…
Pole Flip
(Guardian) – the last one, 42,000
years ago, may have helped snuff the Neanderthals, among other big
changes…we’re
due for another ere long, so let’s hope we weather global warming
before adding
insult to injury…
No
Planet Nine?
(Science Alert) – The evidence for yet
another planet from multi-discoverer Mike Brown may be an artifact of
expectation…
Scouring The
Moon (SpaceWeather)
– newly-discovered, the Moon gets a solar wind blast from the
Earth each month,
depositing water on the Moon.
Perfect Storm (Spaceweather) –
They
don’t happen
often, but in a unique 1-2 punch, another one will…
New Universe(s)
(Vice) – Struggling to put the new
outer planets into your horoscope? How about a new universe…!
A Musical Note
(Spaceweather) – Over Norway, in the
magnetosphere, 2 min. 14 sec. wavelength.
Historical
Cycles
(Atlantic) – From another cycle point of
view, 2020 and the next ten years are fraught with perilous change,
indeed…
Earth
Faster and Closer To Black Hole (NAO) –
By 7
km/s and 2000 light
years…
New
Constellations Discovered
(LiveScience) – In an Egyptian temple,
just by cleaning off a neglected ceiling. Nobody knows what they are,
including
“Ra’s Geese”…
Sunspots
Rebound (Spaceweather)
– After a long solar low, sunspots are crowding back, starting
with
election week,
and with it the
usual general “mass excitability” long ago described by Alexander
Chizhevsky…
What A Blue
Moon Is Not (Sky
and Telescope) – This doughty astronomy magazine admitted
misdefining “blue
Moons” generations ago, and now gives a calendar of them, based
on the same
misdefinition…
Siblings (CFA Harvard) – A
little star-demotion is underway. It turns out stars (like the Sun)
don’t form
and then mother their planets later, they all grow up together,
brothers and
sisters, large and small. Some real implications about astrological
power
sharing in that…
Astro-Disk
Reevalued (DW)
– Although a compelling artwork, the Nebra Sky Disk is not the
first sky
depiction, and not such a meaningful reproduction after all…
Storms
and Quakes
(Nature) – A direct link between solar
storms, earthquakes, and even “earthquake lights” may
finally be established…
Once and Future
Megablasts (Space
Weather) – The Carrington Event, which shorted out every
circuit on earth,
was not a one-off. There have been many before, and yet to come…
Rings Like A
Bell (Quanta) –
The Earth does, thanks to external gravitational squeeze of Moon, Sun,
etc.
Predicted by Laplace 220 years ago, finally confirmed…
Cosmic
Rays On The Rise
(Spaceweather) – Leave the planet to
escape global warming? Not a good option…appears it’s
getting more perilous out
there, too…
A Blast from
the Silence (Spaceweather)
– In 1903, the Sun at quiet solar minumum let loose a storm that
pinned the
meters…we’re at the same spot in the cycle now, so hold
that thought…
Moon Freckles
(Mysterious Universe) – A host of
lights and other strange movements regularly are sighted on the Moon,
and
nobody knows what they are. To cover that, scientists have dubbed them
“lunar
transient phenomena”, nothing like naming it to explain it…
Cycles of
Violence (LiveScience)
– Here’s another cyclical look at how we got to an
explosive 2020 – this time a
50-year period…
Collective
Gravity (Mysterious
Universe) – First Planet 9 is a figment, then a black hole,
now…? Maybe
it’s just a bunch of little guys on each others’ shoulders
looking like a big
guy…
Moonolith
(Psydonia) – The
Moon is more
peculiar
and beyond ordinary than one would ever consider…
Moon Spirits (Metcalfe) – When
we go to space are
we messing with the Moon?...
Shifting Times
Ten (Mysterious
Universe) – The magnetic poles are whipping around, working
up to another
shift? More here…
Bio Documentary
on Astrologer (Time)
– Netflix has done a bio-doc on the life of Puerto Rican
astrologer Walter
Mercado, delighting all…
Planet
Nine = Black Hole?
(Harvard) – The only
way to tell is
from flashes of space debris falling in…the size of a
grapefruit, you could
stick it in your fridge, except it would destroy the world…
Very Nearby
(Unige) – Forget all those distant
stars that may have Earth-like planets in habitable
zones…there’s one at
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, right down the block…
Solar Lens
(Planetary.org) – Can’t see
details those planets around distant
stars? Use the Sun as a magnifying glass…
The Great Storm
(Spaceweather) -- …of 1921…everything
electrical just blew up, caught on fire…maybe something like
this is around the
corner, the virus just a prelude…
Astrological
Cycles (Medium)
– They’re the only constant…and they said this was
coming, as we have been
noting…
Planet Nine
(Scientific American) – The mystery
planet ould be a mirage…poof!
Self Care (Hellogiggles)
–Astrology can
be a
form of self-care…well, what can’t…there is no
problem a good solution cannot
cure…
Japan’s
Stonehenge (BBC)
– It even does leap years…
Earthquakes and
Tsunamis… (Spaceweather)–
Both ring like space storms from space …
Gridstrike
(Spaceweather) – Where you are when
the solar flares hit will determine if your lights (and everything
else) go
out. Here’s a map…
Astrology
Cure
(LA Times) – Will reading books on
astrology do better than drinking bleach?...it’s
all
the rage… especially in the Subcontinent…
They
Predicted It
(Yahoo) – You had to be asleep not to
predict this one, in general…we’ve been in print about it
since 1998…
Tricky
Waters (Globe and Mail) –
Astrologers are having a rough
time with
Corvid-19, partly because they didn’t see it
coming…perhaps because, as we have
noted, they couldn’t, except in
the
most general sense…
Sign in the Sky
(NextWeb) – Comet Atlas may turn out
to be the brightest in decades, an omen, a portent to oversee the 2020
catastrophes here and yet to come?...
Turn Back Time?
(Astronomie) – No, you can’t, after
all, at least on some pretty big scales. This is a game-changer…
Slime
Mold in the Sky (Spacetelescope)
– Turns out the
way
giant clusters of supergalaxies grow and spread their tentacles is the
same way
the humble slime mold does…as above, so below, or the other way
round…
Solar
Storms Strand Whales
(Spaceweather) – When the Sun starts
putting out, whales fatally lose their way…
Zodiac
Shaming (LA Mag) – Diss-ing
signs, it’s the
latest. Even Bloomberg is doing it, but he does have a passle of
Aquarius, next
to the national Moon, just like FDR…
New
Moon (Atlantic) – Not the phase, an
entirely new moon,
just captured and
circling Earth…for a while, anyway…
Shelley
Ackerman Dies
(BroadwayWorld) – Old New York friend and
colleague, R.I.P….
Apps
Rising (Wall St. Journal) –
The old dog’s take on why
the new media kids
love their astro-apps…
Fixed Star Fainting (Spaceweather)
– Betelgeuse,
the
brightest star in Orion, has suddenly faded, frequently a symptom of an
imminent nova explosion. If that becomes 2020’s most memorable
sky …
Astrology Paved
The Way (Guardian)
-- …for predictive analytics…still does…
A Coping
Mechanism (Mic)
– Astrology can be that, too…
Kookie
Obsession (Seattle Times)
– Astrology has come back from the
edge, now it’s
just so edgy…
Too
Vast To Be Grasped (India
Post) –
Beyond edgy, that’s for
sure…
When Pluto
Meets Saturn… (Daily
Beast) -- …opposite Trump’s Saturn, sounds
hairy…
Hot Music Above
the Sun (Exeter)
– Why is it hotter outside the Sun than inside? It’s like
an orchestra, playing
together, where the sounds and overtones meet (and heat)
above the surface…
Retro
Fix (TheCut)
– This article reflects the typical Mercury
retro manta: it
messes everything up. No, it’s when you get
close enough to discover
the mess already made and fix it, then
go ahead…
Only
Wrong Once (Metro)
– This astrologer claims to be fail-safe…because
there’s another univers in
which every prediction comes true…
Pick
Your Program (TVB) – European TV is
trying
astrologers
to hone in on viewership. This one is simplistic, but astrology is a
potentially a
marketing moneymaker tool…
Astro
App Mania (Post)
– DIY astrology apps are in high
gear, proving there’s no expertise like no expertise…
Transplant
Stall (Deccan Herald) – Opposing
family astrologers
fight over best time for kidney operation…
King
Tides (News-Journal) – Sometimes it
takes global warming
to notice what
the Moon already does to us, anyway…Floridians are finding
out…
Earthsong
(AGU) – when we slip through a solar
storm we sing…listen to it…
Astrolgy
in the Age of Uncertainty
(New Yorker) – Those Millennials will
believe anything, tsk, tsk…must be because they’re
insecure…
Sleepless
but Lawful (Wellandgood))
– The full Moon may cause you to lose sleep, but doesn’t
cause a
crime
wave, say various researchers. Is
there a conclusion…?
Fish
Factors (YourSun) –
Science aside,
fish (and fishermen) know all about the Moon’s phase, and the
atmospheric
pressure, too…
Adios,
Walter… (NPR) –
Venerable Hispanic astrologer Walter Mercado
has moved on…
Bad
Poetry (Wired) –Astrological
poets fall foul of political
correctness when
recommending travel…
Assyrian
Solar Storms
(Ancient Origins) – Ancients had their
eye on spaceweather…
New
Dwarf Planet (CNN) – Turns out Hygeia is
round, just
like bigger asteroids…quick, where’s the ephemeris?...
Murder
By Astrology
(Strangeco) – from the historical police
blotter…
Asteroid
Platinum
(NewAtlas) – the possible paleolithic
Youger Dryas asteroid strike is back in the news, thanks to a tell-tale
platinum spike…
Loch
Ness Henges (Mysterious Universe)
– When the water
gets low, they surface…
Black Overtones (Caltech) –
Black
holes, when they
collide, ring like a bell…and their clanging gravity waves have
resonant overtones
just like anything else, from a clarinet to a galaxy…
Transit of
Mercury (SpaceWeather)
– Only thirteen times a century does this aspect of Sun and
Mercury become so
precise, the ultimate Cazimi…
Moon
and Your
Health (Medical
News) – Lots of new indicators that increasingly confirm that
yes, the Moon
can affect you in all sorts of ways…
Planet Pluto
(CNN) – This perennial rolling
discussion assumes we can determine what
Pluto is, instead of how we see
it…Pluto doesn’t care…
Real or Unreal?
(Cosmo and Metro) – Here’s
a set of contrasting pro and con astrology arguments that rely
on belief, on each side…with reality lost in the middle…
Henge with
Holes (Express)
– Armenian giant stones may have observed stars, way older than
Stonehenge…
Pig
Fat (Mysterious Universe) –
How did Stonehengers move
those great
rocks to mark the celestial movements? They simply greased the
skids…
Chameleon
Theory (DUR) – Could be that
ordinary space-time
doesn’t work elsehwhere, where there are other sets of
rules…could that work at
other levels?...
Henge Magazine
(Henge) – Dropping behind your
neolithic ancestors in the sky-to-ground division? Finally, a new
publication
that helps you fill the gap…
Solar
Soundings
(Solar Center Stanford) – The Sun rings
like a bell, and its harmonics tell all sorts of tales…with this
app, you can
try it out for yourself, see what fits where…
Black Hole
Magnet (Sofie)
– Maybe we should be paying more attention to Sagittarius A, the
black hole at
the center of our galaxy, roughly 26 degrees Sagittarius…all
magnetic lines
lead there…
Split
Personality
(CU)) – The sunspot cycle, and its
effects on us, may be schizy…think of the Sun as a spherical pot
of boiling water,
where the scalding whirlpools collide at the equator, and go from
there…
Flocking
Millennials (NY Post)
– They just can’t get enough astrology, spaced-out little
creatures that they
are…
Cyclones From
The Sky (Express) –
Don’t dismiss spaceweather, it could blow you away…
Body Parts
(Neuroscience News) – The diurnal
rhythms of the houses aren’t just picked up by the
brain…your skin and liver do
it, independently…
Pluto’s
Volcanic Ocean (Space.com)
– This is just sooo 8th house…and it could
support life…
Dying
Spot
(Futurism) – The Great Red Spot on
Jupiter, the greatest planetery storm, R.I.P…see it here...
Lifesavers
(Wired) – Drugs that modify the daily
pulse of the heavens could save your life…
Free
Will, or What?
(The Nightshirt) – A proper question for
astrologers, and the answer is mostly “or what”…from
the author of Time Loops…
Werewolves at
the Wheel (The
Sun)
– Car wrecks are more common on the full Moon, particularly when
men are in the
driver’s seat…
Homeless Moon
(Streetroots) – The full Moon is a
unique marker for those living in the street or in homeless
camps…
Astrology
and the Internet
(Wired) – Like other things, looked like
it would help, but turned into a nest of vipers…
Destroy Your
Friends (BuzzFeed)
– Like, who wouldn’t want to?... with astrology memes,
yet…
Screw an Air
Sign (Bustle) –
Tired of all that earthy stuff? Here’s something more
heady…oh, spare us…
Geomagnetic Jerks (Gizmodo)
– Jumpy lumps are making sudden
changes beneath our feet…
Lunar Wildlife (National Geographic)
– Nat Geo takes
note of all the things the Moon officially does to critters…
Starry Startups
(NY Times) – Inspired by the Trump
revolution in scientific thinking, it appears venture capital is
turning its
eyes to the skies…
The Sun Speaks (Spaceweather) –
And
it sounds
like…the sea…
Inner Orrery (Scientific American)
–
Mentioned eariler, the full story…a planetary ephemeris, written
in stone
beneath our feet…
Feeling the Field (Gizmodo) – Some of us can sense the
magnetism, as our planet fluctuates…
Spring On Other Planets
(Atlantic) –
Imagine if Sun in Aries lasted not a month, but a year, or
twenty…
Location,
Location (National
Geographic) – How solar
storms affect you could depend on
what’s next door…
Mercury Closer Than
Venus (ScienceAlert)
– Really? Well, maybe, sometimes…
When
the Sky Meets the Ground
(Daily Grail) – It hurts all over…new
evidence of multi-comet strike 13,000 years ago, this time from South
America…
Signed in Stone
(Smithsonian) – The movements of the
planets actually leave a record in Earths own rocks…
Apocalypse
Overhead (SecretSun)
– The entire Book of Revelations encoded in the sky...
Second-Hand
Henge (Guardian)
– Turns out eighty of the pillars at Stonehenge had already been
used in an
earlier setup in Wales…waste not, want not…
Sky Stones
(Guardian) – The Stonehenge
bluestones, with their sparkling crystals on a dark back ground may
simply have
been Mesolithic screensavers, sort of…and, they were convenient
pop-outs...
Far
Out and Farther Out (Sciencemag) – Put them in your
horoscope…
To The Moon (ESA) –
Earth’s
atmosphere goes all
the way to the Moon…we have a direct, molecular
connection…
Chilly, Chance
of Dust Devils (Cornell)
– That’s the forecast on Mars, now updated daily. Does a
planet’s weather up
there tune its effects down here. Previous storms on Jupiter and Saturn
give
pause for thought, so now we can keep an eye out…
Boring Uranus
(Forbes) – From the outside, it looks
like nothing’s happening, until you take a closer look…
No
Nine
(Cambridge) – The mysterious, massive, but
yet-unfound Planet Nine
may have been explained away…
Oyster Moon
(PhysOrg) – Oysters open up their
valves just before new Moon, regardless of light…an
almost-repeat of prof F.A.
Brown’s experiments
so long ago…
Siberia-bound (RT) – The North
magnetic pole is
swiftly being sucked toward Siberia…recalibrate your
compasses…world governments are…because it's affecting your
cellphone...
Cycle
Balance (StormTracker) – And
scale-shifting, this time in
weather, is about
evening things out…
Cycles and
Fractals
(BusinessMirror) – Cycles, business and
otherwise, don’t just repeat, they mirror and rescale…
Hit
By A Rock (Time) – That’s what
made Uranus so crazy and
weird…
Best
Planet (Washington
Post) – That would be Jupiter, says the Washington Post.
But you know these liberals…The Wall
Street Journal might have picked Saturn…
Grandma Says
(ChronicleHerald)
– That the Moon makes weather, and other things…part of a
series...
Java Megs
(Live Science) – Not the software,
the Indonesian pole-aligned megalithic temple
that now may date back 28,000 years…
Drifting Away
(Forbes) – All from each other, we
are…off into space…nice explanation and gifs…
What Einstein
Believed (TheWeek)
– maybe a little more thought-out (if less statistical) than the
subjects of
the Pew report…
What to
Believe? (Pew)
– In God, a spiritual presence, unseen higher powers? In America
these days
it’s a curious mix, evolving…Pew Research sets it out in
detail…
Where’s the
Moon?
(Hyperallergic) – New Yorkers know, just
follow the moving arrow…cute
Megablast (Today)
– Seems a supernova
extinguished the great mega-marine animals, including Megalodon, just
as we
were becoming our own species. What if it happened again?...
Counting Spots
(SWRI) – The rhythms of sunspot
cycles across the ages, and what goes with them, may have been
unlocked…
Russian
Stonehenge (DailyGrail)
– Well, of course, they had one, too, didn’t everybody?...
Sunspot
Prediction: Not
Cool
(CESSI) – The next sunspot peak will
be big and busy, no help in slowing climate change…
Questions
Astrologers Hate (Romper)
– Because
they’re soooo
stupid…a fun and true take on the subject…
Sun Storms and
Gas Prices (Bloomberg) – They’re
linked, because the
sunspot rhythm drives the cold weather that drives up demand for
natural gas…
Cave Skies
(Un of Edin) – Cave art was
reflective of the heavens – those animals weren’t hunting
prey, they were
constellations. And also witness to
catastrophic comet strike…
Mercury
Melanoma (Daily
Grail) – Skin cancer manifests at Mercury’s 87-day
cycle…researchers are
suggesting it’s from a focus of streams of dark matter…
Sucking Up the
Oceans
(NY Post) – Not enough water? Earth is
absorbing too much, could explode!
Astrology Gang (Times of India)
–
We’ve taken to ignoring
the florid Subcontinental astro police blotter, but now they’re
getting
organized…
Magnetic Music
(SpaceWeather) – A local example of
how our magnetic envelope is singing a pure tone…
Resonance
(EarthSky) – It’s our
physical
basis for astrology, but here maybe everything…
Exploding Mines
(SpaceWeather) – Declassified records
reveal X-class sunspot flares set off hundreds of naval mines
spontaneously in
1972…what could the Sun trigger if it happened now?...
Hidden Moons
(National Geographic)
– Belonging to Earth they are,
two of them…but really just dust clouds…still, important
as they are nested
into our Lagrange
points,
essentially sextile pockets that are the building blocks of
astrological
aspects themselves…
Astrological
Twins (Bustle) –
They’re not the same for the same reasons genetic twins
aren’t – essetially,
the butterfly effect…
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