A HUGE meteor lit up the sky over the UK last night. The burning space rock looked just like a firework and was reported by around 120 Brits. The UK Meteor Network described the meteor as a "fireball" and retweeted several videos caught on home doorbell cameras. It came crashing through the atmosphere at about 9.55pm GMT on Sunday. Sightings were reported from all over the UK including in Scotland and Somerset. Amazed stargazers took to Twitter to share what they saw. Detected on SCAMP network too, congrats! https://t.co/buZwCt10OP — UK Meteor Network (@UKMeteorNetwork) February 28, 2021 Great capture https://t.co/TNtTv5h5XT — UK Meteor Network (@UKMeteorNetwork) March 1, 2021 One told the UK Meteor Network: "I saw this in Manchester! Incredible!!!!!" Another said: "I saw one as i was taking my recycling bin out and that was about 9.55pm and I live in Slough, Berkshire." Others described spotting what they thought was a firework and some … [Read more...] about Huge ‘fireball flash’ over UK spotted by 120 Brits as giant METEOR snapped streaking across sky
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Jupiter and Mercury conjunction – see Solar System’s smallest and biggest planets together this week
STARGAZERS will be treated to a close meeting between Jupiter and Mercury this week. The Solar System's largest and smallest planets will reach conjunction on Friday morning. That means they'll look like they're almost touching to us Earthly observers. This celestial event is one for early risers. You'll need to spot the planets just before dawn on March 5. Look low on the eastern horizon. It's best to do this with a pair of binoculars or a small telescope. Around 45 minutes before sunrise on March 5, Mercury should be slightly above and to the left of Jupiter. Mercury and Jupiter will be separated by just 0.3°. Weather permitting, both planets with look like stars shining just above the horizon. Saturn should also be visible to the right of Jupiter and a lot higher up. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and it reached the outer most edge of its orbit that's visible from Earth in January. That made it far enough away from the Sun's glare to … [Read more...] about Jupiter and Mercury conjunction – see Solar System’s smallest and biggest planets together this week
The Psychology of Nationalism
Source: herbert haseneder/flickr Rusty Schweikhart was a member of the Apollo 9 space mission in March 1969, which carried out tests for the moon landings that took place later that year. Like many astronauts, he found the experience transformational. One of his tests was to do a spacewalk around his lunar module, in which he floated 160 miles above the earth. As he gazed at the planet circling below him, he experienced a profound shift in perspective. Like all of us, he had been brought up to think in terms of different countries with borders between them. But now he lost his identity as an American astronaut, and felt "part of everyone and everything sweeping past me below." As he described it: When you go around the Earth in an hour and half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with the whole thing…You look down there and you can’t imagine how many borders and boundaries you cross, again and again and again, and you don’t even see them…[F]rom where you see it, … [Read more...] about The Psychology of Nationalism