the sky & beyond: comet 3/31 to 6/2

[Lemon Cheesecake]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/supermoon-n ... ince-1948/

"the full moon that peaks on Monday, November 14 will be closer to Earth than any other since 1948. The full moon won’t come this close again until 2034."

This moon will reach the crest of its full phase at 8:52 a.m. Eastern time, and perigree will occur within about an hour to an hour and a half of that time, according to EarthSky.org. But it should look exceptionally big and bright throughout the night.

[Watery Star]

Thanks for the advanced notice! I'll keep an eye out on the moon that night.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I think it says that the early morning will be the biggest/closest but if you miss that one there is one more chance for Dec 14/2016

[Watery Star]

Not sure I can be up for it but I'll try.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I'm going to check out the moon every night because, full or not, it is supposed to be the closest to the Earth - who knows where I will be in 2034

[Lemon Cheesecake]

http://www.businessinsider.com/vela-gal ... ed-2016-11

Just when they thought they had more stars then they could count they go and find some more... the mass volume blows my mind, I just can't fathom it all.

Loooook....there's Star Trek Catan!

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[Watery Star]

That's fascinating. The distance and size of it boggles my mind.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/remarka ... -was-wrong

"Verlinde first articulated this groundbreaking theory in his 2010 paper, which took on the laws of Newton and argued that gravity is “an entropic force caused by changes in the information associated with the positions of material bodies”. He famously stated then that "gravity is an illusion,"

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One way the existence of dark matter was used was to explain why stars in outer regions of space seem to rotate faster around the center of their galaxy than theory suggested. What Verlinde proposes is that gravity just works differently from how we previously understood it, and creating the concept of dark matter is irrelevant. He is able to predict the velocity of outer-rim stars and their “excess gravity” within his new theory.

"We have evidence that this new view of gravity actually agrees with the observations," said Verlinde. "At large scales, it seems, gravity just doesn't behave the way Einstein's theory predicts."

One great outcome of Verlinde’s work is that it pushes us further towards reconciling quantum physics with general relativity. "

[Lemon Cheesecake]

The collision of two stars will cause an explosion so intense in five years that it will be visible to the naked eye down here on Earth, astronomers say....a binary star (two stars orbiting each other) will merge and explode in 2022, give or take a year. At that time, the single, remaining star will increase its brightness by 10,000 times and become one of the brighter stars in the heavens

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/scie ... /96408436/

[Lemon Cheesecake]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/comet-45p-c ... uary-2017/

"A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend."

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A lunar eclipse starts everything off Friday night. The moon will pass into Earth’s penumbra, or outer shadow. The moon won’t be blacked out like in a full eclipse; only part of the moon will be shaded. The penumbral lunar eclipse, as it’s called, should be easily visible from much of the world.

Comet 45P, meanwhile, will zoom past Earth, The comet will appear the western sky, in the constellation Hercules. Binoculars and telescopes will help in the search, but at its closest approach it might even be visible with the naked eye, Slooh said.

[Diana]

That's awesome! Figures that the only time it is raining in California is when cool space phenomena are happening.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I hear ya, but maybe the sky will clear?

[Gingerale]

I think the comet is supposed to be back in 5 years?

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I couldn't see anything because it was overcast - did any one get a chance to see the moon or comet ?

[Gingerale]

I'm still looking