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February 25th, 2012 | 
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Planet Alignment: Jupiter, Venus and more, tonight!
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| The planets as seen on February 24, 2012 (early evening). |
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I saw something last night that was simply awesome… Jupiter and Venus lined up with the moon.
I pulled out my smart phone, pulled up my app called Google Sky Map (how did I ever live without it?) and not only did it show Jupiter and Venus lined up to my west, it also showed Uranus and Mercury (below the moon).
To the far east was Mars, just beginning to rise above the horizon. Now how cool is that?
What you can’t see until much later, is Saturn. You’ll have to wait till late night/ early morning to get a view of the ringed planet.
But wait, more to come! Tonight should be quite a spectacle. Please check this out at Space.com:
Jupiter, Venus & Moon Line Up This Weekend: How to Watch Online
And for you astronomy buffs out there, I just have to add the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society website, it’s awesome.
So be sure to check out the night sky tonight and if you can’t, you will still be able to see it live-online and in photos!
-Sunny Williams/LITS
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Nomad Alien Planets May Fill Our Milky Way Galaxy
Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets that ramble through space instead of being locked in orbit around a star, a new study suggests.
These “nomad planets” could be surprisingly common in our bustling galaxy, according to researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute of Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The study predicts that there may be 100,000 times more of these wandering, homeless planets than stars in the Milky Way.
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According to The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo construction company, Obayashi Corporation, hopes to erect a space elevator by 2050. As a doff of the cap to our British readers, the space lift would ferry passengers and cargo along a carbon nanotube ribbon from a terrestrial terminal to a spaceport nearly a quarter of the way to the moon.
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UFO LANDS NEAR ROSWELL
Weekly World News (satire) He commented: “Leaked footage of a UFO arriving then landing at an unknown location in New Mexico. Could be one of ours, CGI, or could be the real deal. As always you decide.” Dr. John Malley has confirmed – it is an alien spaceship from Planet Zeeba. |
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As Obama administration cracks down on intelligence leaks, watchdog groups cry …
Fox News The Obama administration, reeling from the biggest classified information breach in US history thanks to WikiLeaks and its conspirators, is cracking down on intelligence leaks with unprecedented vigor. But open government groups and watchdogs are … |
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US WikiLeaks suspect charged
Australia Network News Manning is accused of passing hundreds of thousands of military field reports and US diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. [Reuters] The army private accused of one of the largest leaks of classified documents in United States history, has been formally … |
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In Back Alleys and Basements, Video Arcades Quietly Survive
Wired News It was taking a trip to Japan, where blaring video arcades still live in every shopping center, that cemented his decision. “As you've seen arcades become … almost non-existent, you've seen people take up the mantle and try and do it themselves,” says … |
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WikiLeaks eyes sensational leak
BigPond News WikiLeaks aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy. WikiLeaks aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy, as part of a 'smear campaign' to stop Sweden from … |
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Nordic News Hacker 2012 breaks barriers between developers and journalists
editorsweblog.org (blog) The initiative is partly inspired by some of the data journalism based on the vast stores of information released by WikiLeaks. Thyssen describes WikiLeaks as a "breakthrough for us within the newspaper in the sense that developers and journalists who … |
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Beach-goers bewildered by mysterious debris
Siuslaw News 8, stories about UFO sightings preceding the alleged appearance of strange metal boxes on Oregon beaches have circulated quickly across the Internet ether, eliciting both credulity and skepticism — mostly skepticism, and not just from traditional … |
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