Good Sunday morning, y’all! Welcome to Sunday, the start of a new week. Hope everyone has been staying cool! We’ll have a hot start to the week, but followed by showers later on. Relief may be on the horizon! Heat Advisory Today The NWS has placed us under a Heat Advisory from 11am to 7pm […]
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Comet Lovejoy is Quite the Model
Comet Lovejoy, or “C/2014 Q2″, has been very photogenic for viewers around the world as it nears closer to the sun. Comet Lovejoy passed closest to Earth on January 7th, still remaining millions of miles away, but becoming increasingly visible for those of us here. The comet will reach its perihelion, or time when it […]
Fireball Viewed Across South
Fireball Viewed Across South: Shortly after 8pm last night I started receiving multiple reports of a green, comet-like object that fell from the sky. I speculated on what this could be, then I soon learned that several people across the south reported seeing what appeared to be some sort of meteor that streaked across the […]
Spacecraft Will Attempt to Land on Comet
Tomorrow the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will be the first to attempt landing on a comet. The spacecraft arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on August 6th, and has been surveying its surface to find a proper landing site since; this is the first time a spacecraft has had to find its own place to touch […]