Earth is approaching the orbit of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, source of the annual Leonid meteor shower. This is not a good year for Leonids. The shower’s nominal peak on Nov. 17th is expected to produce no more than 15 meteors per hour. But! There is a chance of a surprise. Some forecasters believe that Earth might […]
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A Strong Outburst Of Leonid Meteors Is Possible On Saturday (Nov. 19) ** Eyes To The Skies**
Rose McGowan Claims She Was Run Off Road, Home Invasion After Clinton Outburst
A Labour Councillor faced ridicule after she bragged on Twitter about wearing a face mask on an empty train. Not all heroes wear capes. “Going to keep wearing my mask on public transport. Even when it’s just me on the tube,” tweeted Alice Perry. Going to keep wearing my mask on public transport. Even when […]
Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst
Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse’s surface. Hubble researchers suggest that the dust cloud formed when superhot plasma unleashed from […]
Fox News host Roginsky speaks Russian on air in outburst to ‘potential Russian overlords’
In an apparent episode of what the Kremlin called “Russian obsession,” an American TV host and Democratic Party strategist, Julie Roginsky, has addressed her audience in Russian in an outburst against what she called “a hostile foreign power.” Roginsky opened her show in Russian, saying – and now we have to translate it back […]