From Rutherford to Higgs
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Journey to the Stars Wandering through the realms of the cosmos , pondering its huge vastness Home About this site The Author Gallery Astronomy Projects Organizations Pink Contrail and the Crescent Moon On the walk from our house to the street one afternoon , a nice sight in the western sky caught my eyes the 27 illuminated waxing crescent Moon and a pink-colored sunlit contrail against a blue-violet sky . This contrast of colors looked just fascinating . Fortunately , I brought my Kodak digital camera with me and I was able to take a picture of it . It was a bit blurry though without using a sturdy . tripod Notice that while both the Moon and the cloud were illuminated by the same Sun , the cloud was pink and the Moon was so white . The answer lies in the fact that the atmosphere absorbs
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Astroblog: I've done my first Videocast of this months (May 2011) morning dance of the planets. The link is here, or you can watch the video below. The sound and images don't synchronize so well, as I had to do the sound recording on a different computer from the one the proto-video was on (don't ask). I may re-record it.
No doubt, naked-eye views of the universe are spectacular, but there's much more going on out there than appears in visible light.
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