Remember to see the "per-seeds" (pronounced /per-see-ids/) through the dark night of the new (missing) moon, a fireball Perseid meteor shower, as earth passes through the debris field of Comet Swift-Tuttle, and an alignment of six planets: Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There's a total solar eclipse, the first in 27 years for Europe, over Greenland (technically part of Denmark), Iceland, and Spain -- a shadow going in the wrong direction if the Earth were spinning from west (Greenland) to Spain (east). It will be visible to millions on Earth. Will the world end? - YES, but not tomorrow.
Nearly 2 1⁄2 years after space enthusiasts on Earth last saw a total solar eclipse, another is on its way, allowing U.S. viewers to see a partial glimpse of the phenomenon, with other parts of the world like Spain seeing totality.
This year’s eclipse falls on the morning of Aug. 12, 2026, allowing people across most of Europe and in northwestern Africa to see the moon something (possibly Rahu) cover or "eclipse" most of the sun.
For most people, including those in the United States, the moon will not completely block the sun, making this year’s eclipse partial, according to NASA's website.
The lucky people in the USA able to view the partial solar eclipse this year include those from Alaska to North Carolina. People in [the small capital country of] Washington, DC [the ruling district of the larger country's original imperial-colonial name, Columbia], will also be able to see it.
In Alaska, the eclipse will happen in the morning, while those in the northern U.S. will be able to see it between midday and midafternoon, NASA said. People near the center of the eclipse path in Greenland, Russia or the North Atlantic will experience the eclipse for a slightly longer period; most people will see the sun eclipsed for less than two minutes, according to NASA. More:
Coachella 2025 announced 4/23/24: April 11-13 and 18-20, 2025. Advance sale begins Friday, May 3, 2024. Bring money and drop it off in the desert. See 2024 highlights: youtube.com/@Coachella
(Sabrina Carpenter) Hi, Paloma. Who are you here with? - My mom. - Aww, that is so sweet. Hi, Palona's mom! - Paloma, I chose you because you said you were heartbroken. Who broke your heart? - My mom slept with my boyfriend, but she doesn't know that I know. - Aw, hell no! Are you going to sleep with your dad to get even? - No way, but I did sleep with his dad. Hello
The lasers were unrelenting as were the booms!
Who's playing this year? Suprise guests Olivia Rodrigo (with No Doubt), Billie Eilish (with Lana Del Rey), Shakira (with Bizzarap), Childish Gambino (aka Daniel Glover with Tyler, The Creator), Busta Rhymes (with YG Marley's or the remnants of the Fugees), Doja Cat, Bebe Rexha, Ludmilla, Kesha (with Renee Rapp), Young Mikos, Grimes (Mrs. Elon Musk), J Balvin, Sublime, Deftones, Clown Core, Thuy (first Vietnamese solo artist), Blur (who are not the Gorillaz), Peso Pluma, Lil Uzi Vert, Jon Batiste, Lil Yachty, Ice Spice, Jhene Aiko, DJ Snake... and too many more to list. See Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (coachella.com/lineup) for full details. See all SIX stages below (live and rebroadcast).
(Coachella) Welcome to Day 3, Weekend 2, of the official Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2024 [unofficially Woodstock West] livestream, only on YouTube.
With an all-new feature this year, watch up to four stages live at the same time in multi-view* from any TV.
*Device and content restrictions apply. Multi-view feature may not always be available.
Discover new artists, watch favorites, shop exclusive merch, and join the global watch party at home or wherever YouTube Corporation extends.
Tune in both weekends: April 12-14 and April 19-21. Check out the latest Coachella Stage schedule below and see who’s performing all weekend.
Mexican hero Peso Pluma ("Featherweight")
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(All times are Pacific Daylight Time. Schedule is subject to change)
Lizzy Grant is so nervous, but her alter ego Lana Del Rey is so cool she says, "Whatever."
Sonora: youtube.com...
feat. late night drive home, The Beths, Eartheater, Narrow Head, Black Country, New Road, Clown Core (Clown Core!), & Son Rompe Pera.
WARNING: Some viewers may find this video disturbing! Some may find it funny, but don't laugh!
KCAL meteorologist Alissa Carlton faints and collapses live on air
(TODAY) March 20, 2023. Alissa Carlton, a meteorologist (glorified "weather girl") at the local CBS affiliate KCAL (Channel 9, Los Angeles), fainted and collapsed to the floor during a live in-studio broadcast. Her co-hosts tried to hang in there.
Carlton was taken to the hospital and shared a Facebook message that she’s “going to be ok!” NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY. #cbs #news #anchor
NASA Astro[not] Christina Koch captured a [photoshopped] photo of the Quadrantid meteor shower in early January 2020 from her vantage point aboard the extreme low-earth International "Space" Station (ISS) up just 50 miles or so well within the spheres above the atmosphere.
The image, by Koch's own admission, is not a "photo"; it is a touched up composite fabricated and adjusted to show what NASA wants shown and conceal what it does not want shown.
It's also strange that stars are suddenly visible in this image when most images from this height leave them out, claiming they can't be seen from here.
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Like photos photoshopped, fabricated, composed, collaged, composited? Then love this.
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Russia's space program officially announced that our moon is within the atmosphere, suggesting that it is either much smaller and closer than NASA is willing to tell us or that the atmosphere goes much, much farther out. Russians have never explained, nor have they ever retracted their official announcement.
Hey, but the "curve" is clearly visible! Yeah, it's a NASA ("never a straight answer") photo, but what about this curve? Most of the time it's the fish-eye lens effect, and others photos are touched up, and yet others are completely flat without explanation.
Koch's stunning image is thought to show streaks of several "shooting stars" between the green glow of the aurora borealis or northern lights and the lights of a unknown city below. "Can you see shooting starts [sic] from space? Turns out, yes!" Koch tweeted from ISS. More
Eric Dubay via Planet Plane) 200 Proofs Earth is Round but Not a Spinning Ball. This is SCIENCE that dares to question, not the denial of testable facts. Test them. Report honestly. Dubay may not have all the answers, but NASA is definitely lying and concealing many things while calling it "reality" and "open science." At least have the courage he has to question the deceptive fantasy NASA puts forward.
Awaken: NASA images are "fixed" and fake
First you say, "These photos are not fake! My country would not lie." Then seeing the evidence, including NASA's admissions that these are doctored images, you say, "Of course these images are photoshopped! They have to be to show stuff. Nobody ever siad they were 'photos.' My country would lie to others but not me. Blame NASA not my government."
If examined closely, the illusion fades and one sees that this "photo" (actually a heavily photoshopped image) is completely fake and ridiculous. The eye says that this is what is seen from a window or hatch with the ball earth right there.
But the ISS is very close to earth, very close, and in no way could ever get this image even with a fish eye lens. One can see sand on the coast of a massive continent that spans from one end of the earth nearly to the other. Note that the shape of the earth is not a globe but an exaggerated oblate spheroid.
The clouds are so close that the point of view is not from space but from the thermosphere (where it is too hot and ISS's stated components would all melt), ionosphere, or most likely just the stratosphere.
This is all earth's "atmosphere"? Behold, no stars! Note the fake colorization and color saturation, which differ from official NASA "photos" of the planet NASA annually posts on its official website.
NASA's flat earth at the "top of the atmosphere." Claimed altitude 208 miles or 335 kms (eol.jsc.nasa.gov). Crescent moon through top of atmosphere. Photographed above 21.5°N, 113.3°E by Int'l Space Station crew Expedition 13 over the South China Sea, south of Macau (NASA image ID: ISS013-E-54329).
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Note absence of glowing atmospheric layers of gases. Note photoshopped shadows of missing clouds. Note glare of "hot spot" of nearby sun close to the center of photo, which would be utterly impossible if sun were 93 million miles away sending in light at a near straight angle.
The amazing this is not that we are fooled. We are little better than Soviets reading Pravda. For as Americans we know little of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). What is amazing is that "experts" are fooled into unquestioning obedience about these things.
Hollywood, look at us standing in front of a photoshopped Earth as "ball flying in space"!
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And then once they realize this is clearly a deception at odds even with published facts, they keep quiet. They drink heavily. They keep their heads down to hold on to their jobs and reputations, implicitly participating in the cover up. Think. Question. Research. Or be a coward, a good German citizen during WW II, yes, a "Little Eichmann."
If it's clear outside tonight (Wednesday, Dec. 13th) and Thursday morning (Dec. 14th) before dawn, be sure to go outdoors.
One of the year's top meteor showers, the Geminids, will peak, with rates as high as one or two meteors per minute at around 10:00 pm your local time (wherever you're observing from). However, the show will start around 7:00 pm local time, according to the magazine Sky & Telescope.
What's up there? Why don't the space-devas make themselves known when they visit?
But if you can't make it out, or if skies are gloomy, you can also watch a Geminids webcast here on Space.com courtesy of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama starting at about 6:00 pm EST (2300 GMT) on Dec. 13th.
The Virtual Telescope Project will also host a webcast here showing live views from Italy, starting at 5 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Dec. 13, and Arizona, starting at 5:00 am (1000 GMT) on Dec. 14.
The Slooh online observatory will also host a webcast at Slooh.com beginning at 9:00 pm EST (0200 GMT) for members who have registered with the site (registration is free).
"The Geminids are usually one of the two best meteor showers of the year," Alan MacRobert, senior editor at Sky & Telescope, said in a statement. "Sometimes, they're more impressive than the better-known Perseids... More + VIDEO
Tunguska II hit just as a massive meteor was being tracked on the closest known trajectory to pass by Earth in history. Usually things this big hit the our "wandering star" (planet) and cause massive extinction events.
This time it was just another warning to stop trespassing on other in space with our probes and planetary expeditions, at least according to one psychic who called in to Coast to Coast on Friday; Noory was offended and disputed that probes on Mars were hardly equivalent to asteroid showers. Humans in Russia's Urals
region have seen burning objects raining down from the sky after a
meteorite exploded above the Earth and showered the area with debris and an astounding concussive force that blew out windows in the Siberian hinterlands.
(Caltech/TEDx)"Mind-Altering Microbes: How Microbiome Affects Brain and Behavior" by Dr. Elaine Hsiao: "Our" bodies are comprised of 10 times morebacterial cells than human eukaryotic cells. [Probiotics promote optimal health.]Dr. Elaine Hsiao is a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and biology at
Caltech, who received her undergraduate degree in microbiology,
immunology, and molecular genetics from UCLA and her Ph.D. in
neurobiology from Caltech with Prof. Paul Patterson.
She studied
neuroimmune mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of neuro-developmental
disorders and uncovered a role for the commensal microbiota in
regulating autism-related behaviors, metabolism, and intestinal
physiology. She has received several honors, including predoctoral
fellowships from the National Institute of Health, Autism Speaks, and the
Caltech Innovation Program.
Hsiao is currently studying the mechanisms by
which microbes modulate host production of neuroactive molecules because she aims to better understand how the human microbiota influences our behavior, health, and
disease.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local,
self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like
experience. In January, 2013, Caltech hosted TEDxCaltech: The Brain, a
forward-looking celebration of humankind's quest to understand the
brain through neuroscience.
The Perseid meteor shower will be putting on an extraordinary show from Sunday to Tuesday (Aug. 11,
12, and 13). Venus, Jupiter, and Luna (our accompanying moon) will be there, too.
The "shooting star"-studded Perseid meteor shower is expected to wow earthlings on Saturday night with hundreds of ancient, vaporized, dust-specks streaking [through] the atmosphere at more than 100,000 miles per hour. Available to anyone with a clear, dark sky, the only thing keeping you from the show is rampant air and light pollution, and whatever else you may be doing at the time. This event is ideal star-gazing for the lazy. The Perseids, peaking late Saturday Aug. 11/early Sunday Aug. 12, provide the perfect opportunity to take in heavenly bodies sans telescope or fancy equipment. Seeing as much sky as possible is the goal, and laying down to look up is encouraged. The Perseids are a fan favorite among celestial groupies, a popularity Senior Editor of Astronomy magazine, Michael E. Bakich, attributes to the annual spectacle's four unique elements: More
Skywatchers take note: The biggest full moon of the year is due to arrive tonight, Cinco de Mayo, the American heavy-drinking quasi-holiday, which is already prone to a great deal of "lunacy" as the Five Precepts are wantonly violated to the karmic harm of many revelers.
The Moon will officially become full Saturday (May 5, 2012) at 8:35 pm PST (11:35 pm EDT). And because this month's full moon coincides with the Moon's perigee -- its closest approach to Earth -- it will also be the year's biggest.
The Moon will swing in 221,802 miles (356,955 kms) from our planet, offering skywatchers a spectacular view of an extra big, extra bright celestial object, nicknamed a "super-moon."
Its perigee coincides with the full Moon this month [or "moonth," each four week period of 28 days, giving us 28x13=364+1 (reflection day) totaling a real Earth year before the disorienting modern calendar was foisted upon the world].
Moreover, this perigee will be the nearest to Earth of any this year, as the distance of the Moon's close approach varies by about 3 percent, according to meteorologist Joe Rao, SPACE.com's skywatching columnist. This happens because the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular.
This month's full Moon is due to be about 16 percent (send in your photos) brighter than average.
In contrast, later this year on Nov. 28th, the full Moon will coincide with apogee, the Moon's farthest approach, offering a particularly small and dim full Moon.
Though the unusual appearance of this month's full Moon may be surprising to some, there's no reason for alarm, scientists assure.
The slight distance difference isn't enough to cause any earthquakes or extreme tidal effects, experts say.
However, the normal tides around the world will be particularly high and low. At perigee, the Moon will exert about 42 percent more tidal force than it will during its next apogee two weeks later, Rao explained. The last supermoon occurred in March 2011.
How to get a good view
To view this weekend's supermoon to best effect, look for it just after it rises or before it sets, when it is close to the horizon. There, you can catch a view of the Moon behind buildings or trees, an effect which produces an optical illusion, making it seem even larger than it really is.
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