"After discussions with all of our law enforcement partners, government agencies including the FAA, FBI, ATF, National Weather Service and NASA as well as discussions with scientists and scholars it is our determination that the likely cause of the event was a meteor entering and burning up in the atmosphere," read a press release from the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office.
I think the space force will help increase funding and research into remote sensing and help improve weather prediction and climate change / pollution monitoring. Often military programs are better funded than civilian programs but research and development of the military can serve many purposes benefiting humanity.
The winter solstice is the shortest day. It offers the shortest period of daylight. But, unless you live close to the Arctic Circle or Antarctic Circle, your earliest sunsets aren’t on or even near the solstice itself. Instead, your earliest sunsets will come before the winter solstice. The exact date of earliest sunset depends on your latitude. If you live in the southernmost U.S., or a comparable latitude (say, around 25 or 26 degrees north latitude), your earliest sunsets are in late November. If you’re farther north – say, around 40 degrees north latitude – your earliest sunsets are around December 7.
This week, Venus and Jupiter are very low in the southwest during the chilly November dusk. When the month began, they were widely separated, by nearly 24 degrees. Your clenched fist held at arm's length measures roughly 10 degrees, so the two brightest planets appeared about two and a half fists apart.
The transit looks a bit like a bullet hole so...
(CNN) If you thought the super blood wolf moon was scary, you haven't seen what the sun is capable of. NASA on Sunday shared a photo on Facebook and Twitter of the sun looking a lot like a giant flaming jack-o'-lantern. Why does the sun get sunspots? Why does the sun get sunspots? The space agency captured the spooky image on October 8, 2014. The face is the result of active regions of the sun burning more brightly than others, NASA said.