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Time lapse: Chinese rocket caught on video | Bad Astronomy

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Not that any time lapse video of the Very Large Telescope complex at Paranal in Chile would be normal, but this one by Farid Char caught something pretty unusual: what appears to be a Chinese rocket boosting a satellite to orbit! Did you catch it? From 14 – 18 seconds in, you can see it Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 16/01/2012 15:00 Number of articles : 2

Time lapse: Chinese rocket caught on video | Bad Astronomy

O Little (Fightin’) Town Of Bethlehem

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The Christmas spirit didn’t last very long at the Church Of The Nativity, the church built on the site where most Christians believe Christ was born: At one of oldest churches in the world, built over the cave that tradition marks as the place Jesus was born, Franciscan, Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests have brawled Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Outside the Beltway Discovery Date : 29/12/2011 01:20 Number of articles : 2

O Little (Fightin’) Town Of Bethlehem

One more Lovejoy time lapse… maybe the last | Bad Astronomy

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Reports are starting to come in that Comet Lovejoy is fading rapidly, which isn’t too surprising. As it gets farther from the Sun it gets colder, and the ice on its surface doesn’t turn into gas quite so vigorously. It’s the cloud of expanding gas that reflects sunlight and makes a comet bright, so there Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 29/12/2011 19:46 Number of articles : 3

One more Lovejoy time lapse… maybe the last | Bad Astronomy

Fireball over Germany | Bad Astronomy

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[UPDATE: Turns out the fireball described below was the re-entry of the Soyuz booster that brought Expedition 30 up to the International Space Station a few days ago. Thanks to Marco Langbroek for alerting me to this!] [Update 2 (19:08 GMT): More footage, and a picture in a Dutch paper. Tip o’ the Whipple Shield Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 24/12/2011 18:08 Number of articles : 2

Fireball over Germany | Bad Astronomy

Fireball over Germany | Bad Astronomy

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[UPDATE: Turns out the fireball described below was the re-entry of the Soyuz booster that brought Expedition 30 up to the International Space Station a few days ago. Thanks to Marco Langbroek for alerting me to this!] [Update 2 (19:08 GMT): More footage, and a picture in a Dutch paper. Tip o’ the Whipple Shield Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 24/12/2011 18:08 Number of articles : 2

Fireball over Germany | Bad Astronomy

Lovejoy lives! | Bad Astronomy

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Comet Lovejoy was only discovered in late November, but it’s had quite a ride. It was quickly determined to be a Sun-grazer, the kind of comet that plunges down very close to the Sun in its orbit. The date of this solar close encounter: yesterday! That’s a shot of it using SOHO, a solar observatory Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 15/12/2011 22:07 Number of articles : 3

Lovejoy lives! | Bad Astronomy

Time lapse: the VLA dances in TimeScapes 4k | Bad Astronomy

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Tom Lowe is a photographer who makes amazing time lapse videos (like “Rapture”). He just released a new one, an incredibly beautiful one called TimeScapes 4k, which you can watch below. Make sure it’s set to HD and make it full screen: [You can also watch it on YouTube.] Holy wow! I know you must Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 06/12/2011 21:46 Number of articles : 2

Time lapse: the VLA dances in TimeScapes 4k | Bad Astronomy

An astronaut’s away-from-home movie: Fragile Oasis

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Astronaut Ron Garan’s photography is a common feature here at BA Central, and although his still photos are incredible, he hadn’t tried time-lapse photography until his last trip up to the space station. He took a series of images and he himself created a video from them, called “Time Lapse From Space – Literally. The Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 21/11/2011 16:10 Number of articles : 2

An astronaut’s away-from-home movie: Fragile Oasis

Tornadoes hit Oklahoma on November 7, 2011

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Severe weather threat continues on November 8, as storms pushes into Missouri, Arkansas, eastern Texas and Oklahoma and Louisiana. Large tornadoes not expected. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : EarthSky Blogs Discovery Date : 08/11/2011 02:21 Number of articles : 2

Tornadoes hit Oklahoma on November 7, 2011

An icy Titanic encounter

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This morning, I wrote about some pictures of Saturn’s moon Enceladus I found rummaging through NASA’s Cassini raw images archive. Enceladus is a small icy moon that may have an ocean of liquid water under its surface. It’s a fascinating world, and is one of those objects that cannot seem to take a bad picture; Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Bad Astronomy Discovery Date : 08/11/2011 18:17 Number of articles : 2

An icy Titanic encounter