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Temperature Tumbles To Minus 60 Degrees In Alaska
Bettles, Alaska hasn't climbed above 0 degrees in nearly 10 days. Sunday's high temperature was minus-47.
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Mercury To Make A Rare Pass Across Sun Today For Last Time In 13 Years
Mercury is set to make a transit across the sun on Monday morning for the last time until 2032. A pinprick of darkness will puncture a small hole in the sunlight as the planet traverses the solar disk during a 5.5-hour stretch, starting at 7:35 a.m. Eastern time.
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For First Time In Over A Decade, Full Moon To Appear On Friday The 13th
Coming this Friday night: the spookiest full moon in 13 years. This Friday the 13th full moon is the first since January 2006. But this full moon, most commonly known as the harvest moon, will appear much smaller than most. That's because the moon will be at apogee, or the farthest point in its roughly four-week orbit.
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Trump Shows Fake Hurricane Map In Apparent Bid To Validate Wrong Tweet
On Wednesday, it appears that the White House attempted to retroactively justify a tweet that President Donald Trump issued over the weekend in which he warned, erroneously, that Alabama would be in the path of Hurricane Dorian.
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Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Monday, Tuesday Nights: How to Watch
There are few things more special than watching a shooting star streak across the sky on a warm summer evening.
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Popular Meteor Shower Of The Year Peaks On Monday, Tuesday Nights
There are few things more special than watching a shooting star streak across the sky on a warm summer evening. You'll have your chance Monday and Tuesday nights, when a dozen meteors per hour and possibly up to 50 or more at its peak are slated to dazzle the heavens after dark.
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Total Solar Eclipse To Plunge This 11,000 Km Stretch Into Midday Darkness
The countdown is finally over. On Tuesday, day will become night along a stretch of the South Pacific, Chile and Argentina as a rare "total solar eclipse" plunges the landscape into darkness.
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Weather Satellite, Radar Detect Car-Size Asteroid Exploding in the Atmosphere
The GOES-16 weather satellite is designed to detect flashes of lightning. On Saturday, it saw an asteroid.
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Weather Satellite, Radar Detect Car-Size Asteroid Exploding In Atmosphere
At 4:25 p.m. Saturday afternoon, meteorologists noticed an unusually bright flash signature over the Caribbean waters 170 miles south of Puerto Rico. A spattering of debris showed up on the National Weather Service in San Juan's radar. That's a telltale sign of a meteor or asteroid impact.
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Astronauts Capture Volcano Erupting After Nearly a Century of Silence
Watching a volcano erupt would be cool. But having a front-row seat 254 miles above the volcano? That would be a view.
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Astronauts Capture Breathtaking Scene Of Volcano Violently Erupting
Watching a volcano erupt would be cool. But having a front-row seat 254 miles above the volcano? That would be a view.
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Total Solar Eclipse In A 6,000-Mile Path Next Week, Won't Be Easy To See
It's been nearly two years since the "Great American Eclipse." Millions crammed into a 70-mile wide path of totality stretching from coast to coast, where the moon blotted out the sun to usher in a spontaneous nightfall. It was a planetary cavalcade unlike anything most had seen.
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"A Stunning Sight": Wave-Like Cloud Formation Wasn't Classified Until 2017
Paul McCully was having a relatively normal Tuesday in Myrtleford, Australia on June 11. Then he looked up. "It looked like inverted waves moving quickly across the sky," wrote McCully, who was driving at the time. He pulled over to snap a photo. "It was a stunning sight
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Cyclone Fani Forecast Equivalent To A Category 4 Hurricane: Foreign Media
Cyclone Fani, packing winds of nearly 110 mph, is set to slam northeastern India later this week, bringing with it destructive winds, rain totals topping a foot and a potentially devastating storm surge.
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Warning Signs Showed Trouble As Norway Cruise Ship Sailed Into Cyclone
The Viking Sky's mayday call came midmorning Saturday just offshore Norway. It followed an engine failure that left the ship stranded in the harsh conditions. Waves topping 60 feet and winds exceeding hurricane strength buffeted the crippled vessel. The storm had the air pressure of a Category 3 hurricane.
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Temperature Tumbles To Minus 60 Degrees In Alaska
Bettles, Alaska hasn't climbed above 0 degrees in nearly 10 days. Sunday's high temperature was minus-47.
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Mercury To Make A Rare Pass Across Sun Today For Last Time In 13 Years
Mercury is set to make a transit across the sun on Monday morning for the last time until 2032. A pinprick of darkness will puncture a small hole in the sunlight as the planet traverses the solar disk during a 5.5-hour stretch, starting at 7:35 a.m. Eastern time.
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For First Time In Over A Decade, Full Moon To Appear On Friday The 13th
Coming this Friday night: the spookiest full moon in 13 years. This Friday the 13th full moon is the first since January 2006. But this full moon, most commonly known as the harvest moon, will appear much smaller than most. That's because the moon will be at apogee, or the farthest point in its roughly four-week orbit.
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Trump Shows Fake Hurricane Map In Apparent Bid To Validate Wrong Tweet
On Wednesday, it appears that the White House attempted to retroactively justify a tweet that President Donald Trump issued over the weekend in which he warned, erroneously, that Alabama would be in the path of Hurricane Dorian.
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Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Monday, Tuesday Nights: How to Watch
There are few things more special than watching a shooting star streak across the sky on a warm summer evening.
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Popular Meteor Shower Of The Year Peaks On Monday, Tuesday Nights
There are few things more special than watching a shooting star streak across the sky on a warm summer evening. You'll have your chance Monday and Tuesday nights, when a dozen meteors per hour and possibly up to 50 or more at its peak are slated to dazzle the heavens after dark.
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Total Solar Eclipse To Plunge This 11,000 Km Stretch Into Midday Darkness
The countdown is finally over. On Tuesday, day will become night along a stretch of the South Pacific, Chile and Argentina as a rare "total solar eclipse" plunges the landscape into darkness.
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Weather Satellite, Radar Detect Car-Size Asteroid Exploding in the Atmosphere
The GOES-16 weather satellite is designed to detect flashes of lightning. On Saturday, it saw an asteroid.
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Weather Satellite, Radar Detect Car-Size Asteroid Exploding In Atmosphere
At 4:25 p.m. Saturday afternoon, meteorologists noticed an unusually bright flash signature over the Caribbean waters 170 miles south of Puerto Rico. A spattering of debris showed up on the National Weather Service in San Juan's radar. That's a telltale sign of a meteor or asteroid impact.
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Astronauts Capture Volcano Erupting After Nearly a Century of Silence
Watching a volcano erupt would be cool. But having a front-row seat 254 miles above the volcano? That would be a view.
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Astronauts Capture Breathtaking Scene Of Volcano Violently Erupting
Watching a volcano erupt would be cool. But having a front-row seat 254 miles above the volcano? That would be a view.
-
Total Solar Eclipse In A 6,000-Mile Path Next Week, Won't Be Easy To See
It's been nearly two years since the "Great American Eclipse." Millions crammed into a 70-mile wide path of totality stretching from coast to coast, where the moon blotted out the sun to usher in a spontaneous nightfall. It was a planetary cavalcade unlike anything most had seen.
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"A Stunning Sight": Wave-Like Cloud Formation Wasn't Classified Until 2017
Paul McCully was having a relatively normal Tuesday in Myrtleford, Australia on June 11. Then he looked up. "It looked like inverted waves moving quickly across the sky," wrote McCully, who was driving at the time. He pulled over to snap a photo. "It was a stunning sight
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Cyclone Fani Forecast Equivalent To A Category 4 Hurricane: Foreign Media
Cyclone Fani, packing winds of nearly 110 mph, is set to slam northeastern India later this week, bringing with it destructive winds, rain totals topping a foot and a potentially devastating storm surge.
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Warning Signs Showed Trouble As Norway Cruise Ship Sailed Into Cyclone
The Viking Sky's mayday call came midmorning Saturday just offshore Norway. It followed an engine failure that left the ship stranded in the harsh conditions. Waves topping 60 feet and winds exceeding hurricane strength buffeted the crippled vessel. The storm had the air pressure of a Category 3 hurricane.
