Oh, well. Fun while it lasted.

Quoted: National Public Radio officials are expected to tell the staff members of “Bryant Park Project” that their experimental weekday morning program is being canceled.

From Bryant Park, http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/

Quoted: As the full moon rises this Wednesday evening, June 18, many people will be tricked into thinking it's unusually large

You've all seen it, haven't you?
See my comment.

JPL animation. Sound effects stolen from The Time Tunnel and 2001, A Space Odyssey, and the scific version of the seven samuri. Write back if you want me to find the relevant utube clips.

Quoted: Phoenix Mission: A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage: the Mars lander called Phoenix. Set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket, Phoenix's assignment is to dig through the Martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves.

Take that!, Summer Ash!!

Another quick star chart site.

Quoted: Hopefully some of you in North America will have clear skies tonight; check out the west about a half hour after sunset and look for this gorgeous setup: a 2-day old Moon with -0.6 magnitude Mercury shining below it, and the Pleiades and Hyades nearby. Thanks to a suggestion by a reader,

That would, of course, be me!! Kudos to me!!!

From BillHartnell, wasn't worth the time to read, but look at a new blogger type.

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Who plagiarized who, Summer Ash or the NY Times
Notes: 5th magnitude, but only seen by robot observers
Scientists: Neil Gehrels of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s Swift satellite on March 19

Quoted: Astronomers have spotted one of the largest examples yet of the explosions known as gamma-ray bursts in the constellation Bootës.

Quoted: Images of a tsunami blasting its way through the sun's lower atmosphere have been taken for the first time.

I, of course, missed it, altho using candles somehow doubly missed the point (CO₂and using light).

Quoted: CHICAGO (March 29) - From the Sydney Opera House to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of civilization went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.