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HOLLOW EARTH – SKYVIEWS – (REPORT BELOW) Edmond Halley in 1692 put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about 800 km (500 mi) thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury... #astroid #candotina #comets

FUKUSHIMA T-VIRUS SKYVIEWS 1-5-2014

DYING SUN SKYVIEWS AUGUST 17, 2014 DYING SUN - REPORT BELOW SKYVIEWS AUGUST 17,2014 Thank you my friend, George! Star Date: 68092 UPDATE - August 19, 2014: A moderate (G2-class) geomagnetic storm is underway as Earth passes through the wake of a CME that hit our planet's magnetic field on August 19th, 2014 - I warned you all for a very long time now - this is just the beginning of the end.......oxygen levels will deplete, more diversions of crazy global events going on around the world to get your attention and if you don't look up then you are not the wiser. Please look up. See what your skyviews are a telling you and pay attention to our Sun - because I just know with all my being and my spirit that everything is going to change, like a twinkling of an eye. I am but a messenger, nothing more. I don't pretend to have all the answers, I just give you the messages that I have been given with song and with facts. As we speak, auroras are now circling both of our planet's poles. MORNING PLANETS: Set your alarm for dawn! Venus and Jupiter are converging for a spectacular conjunction in the early morning sky. At closest approach on the morning of August 18th, 2014 - the two brightest planets in the solar system will be only 0.2o apart. August 17, 2014: More Venus and Jupiter Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest objects in the night sky other than the Moon, will stand side by side quite low in the eastern sky at dawn tomorrow. Venus is the brighter of the two. August 18, 2014: Jupiter Ascending The giant planet Jupiter is just beginning a year-long arc across the night sky. The brilliant planet is low in the east at first light, a little above even brighter Venus. August 19, 2014: Northern Crown The Northern Crown is a semicircle of stars next to Bootes, the herdsman. Look west around 10 p.m. for yellow-orange Arcturus, the brightest star in Bootes. The Northern Crown stands above Arcturus, outlined by seven moderately bright stars. ERUPTING FILAMENT CREATES 'CANYON OF FIRE', CME: A magnetic filament snaking down the middle of the solar disk erupted during the late hours of Aug. 15th, 2014. The eruption split the sun's atmosphere, hurling a CME toward Earth and creating a "canyon of fire", and it is heading straight for Earth. Minor geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives during the late hours of August 18th, 2014. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras UPDATED August 24, 2014, 4:33 PM ET State of Emergency After Northern California Shaken by Biggest Earthquake in 25 Years A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area early Sunday morning, centered in the Napa County town of American Canyon, but felt across Northern California. The quake, the strongest in the region since 1989, prompted Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency Sunday. MINOR STORM WARNING: Today's M5.6-class eruption -A CME is heading for Earth. The relatively slow-moving storm cloud left the sun on Aug. 22nd and looks like it will take 4 DAYS to cross the sun-Earth divide. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of polar geomagetic storms on Aug. 26th when the CME arrives. MINOR STORM WARNING: A CME is heading for Earth. The relatively slow-moving storm cloud left the sun on Aug. 22nd and looks like it will take 4 days to cross the sun-Earth divide. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of polar geomagetic storms on Aug. 26th, 2014 when the CME arrives. "M" FOR MAGNIFICENT: In the vocabulary of space weather, an "M-flare" is a medium-sized explosion. Today's M5.6-class eruption, however, was magnificent. An explosion in the magnetic canopy of emerging sunspot AR2151 hurled a dense and twised plume of plasma into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded a bright coronal mass ejection emerging from the blast site: movie. If this CME were to hit Earth, the likely result would be strong geomagnetic storms. However, because of the sunspot's location near the sun's eastern horizon, Earth was not in the line of fire. Nevertheless, the flare did produce some Earth effects. A pulse of extreme UV radiation partially ionized our planet's upper atmosphere. This "Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance" (SID) altered the normal propagation of VLF (very low frequency) radio transmissions over the the dayside of Earth, an effect recorded at the Polarlightcenter in Lofoten, Norway. This sunspot will turn toward Earth in the days ahead, which means subsequent explosions could be more geoeffective. Audio: Special guest star and musical artists: Collaborators: mboratto Marcelo Boratto Florianopolis Santa Catarina Brazil mwilferd1 Michael Wilferd Los Angeles California USA Gemini Nigel Robinson Borders Scotland United Kingdom JackRelaxx Harald Kay Hannover Germany EdSilva Edson Silva Macon GA USA #skyviews #candotina

PROOF OF THE LIVING SKYVIEWS AUGUST 26, 2014 SKYVIEWS PROOF OF THE LIVING AUGUST 26, 2014 (REPORT BELOW) August 26, 2014: Supergiants Several supergiant stars highlight the sky tonight. Blue-white Spica is low in the west at nightfall, with orange Antares in the south. And before dawn tomorrow, orange Betelgeuse climbs into view in the east. August 27, 2014: Neptune at Opposition Neptune is putting in its best appearance of the year. The giant planet rises around sunset and remains in view all night. It is brightest for the year, too. It’s in the east-southeast after nightfall, in Aquarius. You need binoculars to see it. August 28, 2014: Alpha Lacertae The faint little constellation Lacerta, the lizard, is in the northeast this evening. Its brightest star, Alpha Lacertae, is about 100 light-years away. You need dark skies to see it. Space Weather Message Code: WATA30 Serial Number: 113 Issue Time: 2014 Aug 27 1242 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G2 Predicted Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day: Aug 28, 2014: G2 (Moderate) Aug 29: None (Below G1) Aug 30: None (Below G1) THIS SUPERSEDES ANY/ALL PRIOR WATCHES IN EFFECT Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 55 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Power grid fluctuations can occur. High-latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms. Spacecraft - Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio propagation can fade at higher latitudes. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state. The auroras signal the arrival of a CME launched toward Earth on Aug. 22nd, 2014. As NOAA analysts predicted, the solar wind speed did not change much in response to the CME. However, the storm cloud contained a south-pointing magnetic field that opened a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind is pouring in to fuel the ongoing display. .Forecast... Unsettled to active levels are expected with the chance for a minor geomagnetic storm (NOAA Scale G1) for day one (27 Aug) in response to the CME effects from the pair of CMEs on 22 Aug. CME effects are expected to wane on day two (28 Aug), replaced by the arrival of a positive polarity CH/HSS. Unsettled to active conditions are expected for day two, and quiet to unsettled conditions are forecast for day three (29 Aug). Time Warner Cable says it has no estimated time of repair for reported Internet and cable outages; says communication on progress through its customer service Twitter account will be delayed Traffic Report on 26 August '14 One object reported inside ten LD One object is reported today inside a radius of ten lunar distances (LD) from our planet. Risk-listed 2013 RZ53 is inbound from 4.6 to 4.3 LD*. Coming around next, 2014 QY33 arrives inside ten LD on August 28th, 2014. This report was generated at 1409 UTC with follow-up in today's DOU MPEC for 2014 QY33 and departed 2014 OZ337. Audio: Musical Artist & Song Writer: Derek Clegg Song: Proof of the Living www.derekclegg.com Thank you for hanging out with me. Enjoy your beautiful life! ~tina marie #skyviews www.candotina.com

SKYVIEWS - (REPORT BELOW) JUNE 8, 2014 A massive formation on the sun made of super-hot magnetic plasma erupted this week in an explosive solar storm. The huge plasma tendril, known as a solar filament, erupted on Wednesday (June 4, 2014), blowing part of itself out into space in what astronomers call a coronal mass ejection, or CME. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of M-class solar flares and a 10% chance of X-flares on June 8th, 2014. Space Weather Message Code: ALTK06 Serial Number: 323 Issue Time: 2014 Jun 08 0900 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 6 Threshold Reached: 2014 Jun 08 0900 UTC Synoptic Period: 0600-0900 UTC Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G2 - Moderate Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 55 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Power grid fluctuations can occur. High-latitude power systems may experience voltage alarms. Spacecraft - Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio propagation can fade at higher latitudes. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state. Asteroid 2014 HQ124, which is 1,100 feet wide and will pass by Earth on today, Sunday, June 8, 2014. It will pass by at a range of three times the distance between the Earth-moon. It was discovered on April 23, 2014, by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, a sky-mapping space telescope. Asteroid 2014 HQ124 will be traveling up to 31,000 mph (14 km/s) — 17 times faster than a shot from a high-speed rifle — when it makes its closest approach to Earth on Sunday at 1:56 a.m. EDT (0556 GMT) at three lunar distances away. Star Date Update Sunday, June 8, 2014 - Now the gibbous Moon pairs up with Spica. Monday, The Moon stages its second close encounter in as many nights tonight. This one is with Spica, the brightest star of Virgo. It stands close to the right of the Moon as night falls and remains close as they drop down the sky later on. June 9, 2014 - The Moon is part of a four-object lineup tonight: with Saturn to its left and Spica and Mars to its right. With summer not far off, can you still catch Procyon very low in the twilight. You may need binoculars. It's 17° lower left of Jupiter. From the southern part of the United States, the upper half of Centaurus, the centaur, stands due south at nightfall. The brightest star in that part of the constellation is Menkent, the centaur's shoulder. June 10, 2014 - Now the waxing gibbous Moon is lower left of Saturn at nightfall. Look farther to the Moon's lower left for Antares and the other stars of upper Scorpius. For southernmost Africa, the Moon occults (covers) Saturn around 19 hours Universal Time. The planet Saturn, which looks like a bright golden star, is close to the upper right of the Moon at nightfall. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft at the Saturn system. Cassini continues to study the system today. Traffic Report on 8 June '14 Four objects reported inside ten LD There are four visitors reported to be less than ten lunar distances (LD) from our home world today. Now in our daytime sky, radar target 2014 HQ124, comes its closest to Earth on this passage, reaching 3.25 LD at 0555 UT, which is somewhat remarkable only due to its size -- calculated to be a bit less than half a kilometer in diameter. Newly announced 2014 LK21 is outbound from 6.85 to 7.08 LD, as is 2014 KQ84, which moves from 8.88 to 9.11 LD, and 2014 KA91 leaves ten LD, traveling from 9.46 to 10.11 LD. This report was generated at 1657 UTC with new discovery 2014 LK21 (MPEC) and with follow-up in today's DOU MPEC for 2014 KA91 and for departed objects 2014 KX86 and risk-rated 2014 JU15 (stretching its observation arc from 17.91 to 35.61 days). video entry submitted by ~tina marie June 8, 2014 3:40PM CST Enjoy your beautiful life. Love and light. ~tina marie #candotina #skyviews

SOLAR MAXIMIUM - SOLAR CYCLE 24 MAY 16--17, 2014

SKYVIEWS SIGNS OF THE TIMES - REPORT BELOW JUPITER'S GREAT RED SPOT, the largest storm in the solar system, is shrinking. In 1995, it was about 13,000 miles wide. Today, it's about 10,250 across, and is noticably rounder than in early views. The Great Red Spot is a giant storm that has been observed whirling through Jupiter's southern hemisphere since the 1600s. In the 1800s it spanned about 25,000 miles -- three times Earth's diameter. Planetary scientists are uncertain about the cause, although it may be robbed of energy as it swallows smaller storms. Scientists are also unsure whether this means the storm will soon vanish from view, although the shrinkage seems to be accelerating. RAPIDLY GROWING SUNSPOT: A new sunspot is emerging in the sun's northern hemisphere. In less than a single day, the unnumbered active region has swollen from a barely-visible speck to a double-cored active region five times wider than Earth. The new sunspot is growing so rapidly that its magnetic field is unstable. The region's magnetic canopy is crackling with C-class solar flares, including a bright C8-flare. Stronger flares could be in the offing if developments continue at pace. Also, today, the sun's atmosphere is split down the middle by a canyon-shaped coronal hole, which is almost directly facing Earth. Coronal holes are places where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape. This hole is straddling the sun's equator so the solar wind stream emerging from it will intersect Earth's orbit. ETA: May 16-17, 2014. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on those dates. STAR GAZING: Friday - May 16, 2014: Planet Parade Four of the five planets that are easily visible to the unaided eye arc across the sky shortly after sunset. Golden Saturn is low in the southeast, orange Mars is in the south, and dazzling Jupiter is due west with Mercury low to its lower right. Look for Mercury as twilight darkens. It's low in the west-northwest, far to the lower right of Jupiter and lower left of Capella. Mercury is having its highest showing of 2014. Saturday - May 17, 2014: Rasalhague Rasalhague, the brightest star in Ophiuchus, is quite low in the east as darkness falls and climbs high across the south during the night. Rasalhague is actually two stars that are bound by their gravity, but only one is visible to the unaided eye. Arcturus shines high in the southeast these nights. Vega shines much lower in the northeast. Look a third of the way from Arcturus to Vega for dim little Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, with its one modestly bright star, Alphecca or Gemma. Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega glimmers the dim Keystone of Hercules. Continue on down past Vega, and you hit Cygnus. Sunday - May 18, 2014: Hunting Dogs Two hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici — stand high overhead early this evening. The hounds are pursuing the great bear to their west. The bear contains the stars of the Big Dipper. The dogs are held in leash by Bootes, the herdsman. Look south after dark for Mars at its highest. Straight below Mars, by more than a fist at arm's length, is the distinctive springtime constellation Corvus the Crow. Its four brightest stars form a distorted rectangle less than a fist in size. Traffic Report on 16 May '14 Four objects reported inside ten LD There are four asteroids reported to be flying inside ten lunar distances (LD) of our planet today. 2014 JH15 is inbound from 9.23 to 8.18 LD and 2010 JO33 is calculated with great uncertainty to be coming in from 5.0 to 4.2 LD, while risk-listed intruder 2014 JR24 is outbound from 7.47 to 8.34 LD and 2014 JW55 leaves ten LD, moving from 9.10 to 12.29 LD. Coming toward Earth next, radar target 2014 HQ124 arrives inside ten LD on June 5th. Audio: Song: Signs of the Times Musical Guest Stars: Featuring Lil Joe, MAF And AndrewB Lil' Joe: Guitars MAF: Vocals, Guitars AndrewB: Drums Mike Lane: Lyrics, Music, Bass Spun by SabreLane Thank you for taking your time to visit my channel. I really appreciate it very much. Please if you would be so kind to subscribe to my channel and share. Love and light, ~tina marie #candotina #skyviews

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SKYVIEWS APRIL 1, 2014 (REPORT BELOW) Asteroid Chariklo Found to Have Two Rings Astronomers have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System — after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — to have this feature. The origin of these rings remains a mystery, but they may be the result of a collision that created a disc of debris. Chariklo is the largest member of a class known as the Centaurs and it orbits between Saturn and Uranus in the outer Solar System. The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky, and less prominent rings have also been found around the other giant planets. Despite many careful searches, no rings had been found around smaller objects orbiting the Sun in the Solar System. Now observations of the distant minor planet, Chariklo as it passed in front of a star have shown that this object too is surrounded by two fine rings. NASA is committed to grab an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit in the next decade, using a robotic system to put a 40-foot (12-meter) rock into a space shopping bag, and then tow it to the Moon. This apparently useless mission is actually crucial to the survival of humankind. The space agency calls it the Asteroid Redirect Mission. The images above shows how NASA envisions one of the missions after capture: It will send astronauts to the asteroid in an Orion spacecraft to take samples and return them to Earth. The rings on the bag are hooks for the astronauts to move safely across the asteroid's surface. That proving ground could be the asteroid capture mission. So far, NASA scientists have identified some promising asteroids that could potentially be captured and dragged into a stable orbit around the moon. NASA would launch a robotic mission to retrieve the chosen space rock and tow it into lunar orbit, where astronauts could visit and sample the asteroid by 2025. Engineers are looking into two different ideas for how the retrieval mission would work. In one mission, the robotic spacecraft would visit a large asteroid and pluck a boulder off of it, bringing it back to lunar orbit. In the other, NASA would target a small asteroid that could be lassoed and deposited in a stable orbit. Scientists have now identified about six target asteroids for each of the missions. April 8, 2014 - is a good time to view Mars, with the planet closest to Earth and its surface fully lit up by the sun. The Earth's full shadow will be cast on the moon April 15,1014, the first of two full lunar eclipses in 2014. The eclipse will be visible across the Americas. Full lunar eclipses don't block out the moonlight but can dim it or, sometimes, tint it red. The Lyrid meteor shower, with up to 20 meteors per hour, peaks around the night of April 22, 2014 and into April 23, 2014. April 1, 2014 Auriga, the charioteer, drives across the western sky this evening. Its brightest star is yellow-orange Capella. A disk of gas and dust that may give birth to planets surrounds another of Auriga's stars, which is too faint to see with the eye alone. April 2, 2014 A thin crescent Moon hangs below Taurus tonight. The bull's sparkling shoulder, the Pleiades star cluster, stands to the upper right of the Moon. His orange eye, the star Aldebaran, is farther to the upper left of the Moon. April 3, 2014 Aldebaran, which represents the eye of Taurus, the bull, gazes down on the Moon at sunset. The star shines bright orange, indicating that its surface is much cooler than the surface of the Sun. Traffic Report on 30 March '14 Four objects are reported traveling inside ten lunar distances (LD) of our planet today. Within Earth's Hill sphere, 2014 FT37 comes its closest to the Moon this time around (1.70 LD at 0340 UT), and 2014 FK38 is inbound from 3.54 to 3.02 LD. Further away, 2014 FO38 heads outward from 5.08 to 6.01 LD and 2014 FZ from 8.84 to 9.36 LD. This report was generated at 1519 UTC with follow-up in today's DOU MPEC for departed objects 2014 FS32 and risk-listed 2014 FX32. AUDIO: SPECIAL GUEST STARS MUSICAL ARTISTS & SONG WRITERS TWISTED LINES BAND SONG: BREATH IN MY LUNGS JOSEPH SHAW - GUITAR AND VOCALS DAN MARTINEZ - BASS GUITAR CAROL SOKOL - PERCUSSION Thank you my friends at TWISTED LINES BAND FOR SHARING YOUR TALENTS AND YOUR GIFTS! www.twistedlinesband.com Help your neighbor, love one another and give peace. love and light. Onward and Upward.. ~tina marie #candotina www.candotina.com

SKYVIEWS MARCH 23, 2013 (REPORT BELOW) I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ON THE MOON, BOTH EYES CLOSED, COULD THE MOON BECOME AN ASTEROID? entry submitted by ~tina marie 3/23/2014 4:20PM CST #candotina Planetary scientists back in the early 1980s concluded that the Moon was born around 4.5 billion years ago, when a Mars-sized object, now deceased, struck Earth a glancing blow at a relatively slow speed, creating a disk of debris that congealed into the familiar, modern Moon. Unfortunately, a growing body of evidence suggests that what we've been telling grandma is probably wrong—and a report just published in Nature makes clear exactly how murky the story of the Moon's origin has now become. The central problem with the original theory, says author Robin Canup, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is geological: the Moon simply looks too much like the Earth. "The disk of debris that formed the Moon should have come mostly from the impacting body," she says, "which we think should have had a chemically different composition from Earth." It's also possible that the key problem with the original theory isn't a problem after all. Planetary scientists assume the Mars-size impactor they first cooked up in the 1980's would have been geochemically different from Earth because Mars itself is different—something we know from the chunks of Mars that have made their way to Earth. On Moon, a region known as Mare Nubium, where brightest asteroid strike on the moon ever seen was spotted last year. The asteroid was traveling at about 37,900 mph (61,000 km/h) when it slammed into the moon, creating a crater about 131 feet wide (40 meters) on Sept. 11, 2013. Scientists announced the discovery on Feb. 24 of 2014. This month's full moon — which officially turned full at 1:08 p.m. EDT (1708 GMT) Sunday — March 16, 2014 is called the "Full Worm Moon." The seemingly odd name comes from the appearance of earthworms as the ground softens after winter thaws. Does Earth down after this collision? Where does the fragments from the moon's impact go? More to follow...but in the meantime, keep both eyes wide open. Please give love, peace and harmony. I know you can do it. Enjoy your beautiful life and enjoy your front row seats. Love and light ~tina marie #candotina #skyviews Audio: Musical Artist and Song Writers: "I Don't Want To Live On The Moon" Musical Song Artist & Song Writers: Georgia "Both Eyes Closed" Musical Artists & Song Writers: State Shirt Thank you for sharing your talents and your gifts.

SKYVIEWS - FIND IT SOMEDAY - (REPORT BELOW) CASSINI ON HER MISSION TO SATURN MARCH 17, 2014 History of Cassini Probe: Astronomer Giovanni Cassini is associated with a number of scientific discoveries and projects, including the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that was launched in 1997 and continues to transmit images from Saturn. Born on he was given the name Giovanni Domenico by his parents, Jacopo Cassini and Julia Crovesi. However he also used the name Gian Domenico Cassini, and after he moved to France as an adult, he changed his name to the French version — Jean-Dominique Cassini. To add to the perplexity, he was the first of the well-known Cassini family of astronomers and is sometimes referred to as Cassini I. Astronomer Giovanni Cassini is associated with a number of scientific discoveries and projects, including the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that was launched in 1997 and continues to transmit images from Saturn. The well-traveled probe won't stop studying Saturn and its many moons anytime soon!!! Cassini has logged more than 3.8 billion miles (6.1 billion kilometers) since its launch on Oct. 15, 1997, researchers said. The nearly 12,600-pound (about 5,700 kilograms) spacecraft was hefted off of Earth on Oct. 15, 1997. It went by Venus in April 1998 and June 1999, Earth in August 1999 and Jupiter in December 2000. Cassini-Huygens is a symbol of the new kind of space exploration and cooperation among different agencies. The spacecraft has spent years circling Saturn and its moons, beaming back pictures and data to teach scientists on Earth more about how the system was formed. The ambitious mission is also a joint one among several space agencies, which is a contrast from the large NASA probes of the past such as Pioneer and Voyager. In this case, the main participants are NASA, the European Space Agency and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (the Italian space agency). While Cassini was supposed to last four years, it's still going strong at more than double its projected mission lifetime. Since 2004, the Cassini orbiter has studied Saturn and its many natural satellites. Other missions included observing Jupiter, the Heliosphere and testing the theory of relativity. Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit. It was renamed the Cassini Equinox in 2008 and is currently scheduled to end its mission in 2017. There are also several craters name for Cassini, including an impact crater on the moon that is located in the Palus Nebularum, and a crater on Mars. It regularly passes by the moons of Saturn, producing new data and fueling discoveries back on Earth. NASA's Cassini probe has captured the highest resolution video yet of Saturn's odd, hexagon shaped jet stream that spins around the gas giants north pole. Cassini-Huygens is a symbol of the new kind of space exploration and cooperation among different agencies. The spacecraft has spent years circling Saturn and its moons, beaming back pictures and data to teach scientists on Earth more about how the system was formed. As the probe wandered past Saturn's moons, the findings it brought back to Earth revealed new things about their environments and appearances. On its final orbit In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe will fly between the inner edge of the D ring and the upper atmosphere of the gas giant. It will also fly though an Enceladus plume in the next few years. Some of the more notable findings include: • Finding evidence of liquid water on Enceladus, a frozen moon that shoots out icy jets as it is warped by Saturn's gravity; • Discovering and then pinning down more details about a giant methane lake on Titan; • 50-mile landslides on Iapetus; • A close-up view of Rhea, revealing a pockmarked surface; • A huge ring, 8 million miles away from Saturn, likely made up of debris from Phoebe Credits Photo: Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & Copyright: Davide Coverta The Antennae Galaxies in Collision Explanation: Two galaxies are squaring off in Corvus and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. That's because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small amount of that space. During the slow, hundred million year collision, one galaxy can still rip the other apart gravitationally, and dust and gas common to both galaxies does collide. In this clash of the titans, dark dust pillars mark massive molecular clouds are being compressed during the galactic encounter, causing the rapid birth of millions of stars, some of which are gravitationally bound together in massive star clusters. Musical Audio: Star and Musical Artist: Derek Clegg - Song: Find it Someday

SKYVIEWS - NOVEMBER 6, 2013 (report below) Humanity should start thinking about how to interact with alien species long before coming into contact with extraterrestrial life. Coming up with a strict set of guidelines that govern the way people on future interstellar space missions study and interact with aliens is imperative before anyone blasts off to a distant world, according to attendees at Starship Congress in August. While a "prime directive" — the rule that prevented Star Fleet officers from interfering with the business of alien life-forms on TV's "Star Trek" — might be a little extreme, such a rule could help govern interactions between aliens and humans Kepler launched in March 2009 on a mission to determine how frequently Earth-like planets occur around the Milky Way galaxy. The spacecraft detects alien worlds by noting the brightness dips caused when planets transit, or pass in front of, their host stars from the instrument's perspective. This week, scientists are discussing the mission's latest alien planet discoveries at the Kepler Science Conference at NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, Calif. The $600 million Kepler mission has been incredibly successful, spotting more than 3,500 potential exoplanets so far. Just 167 of them have been confirmed by follow-up observations to date, but scientists expect that 90 percent or so will end up being the real deal. During its original mission, Kepler stared continuously at more than 150,000 stars in a small patch of sky. But if K2 comes to pass, the instrument will take a broader view, covering five to 10 times more area. The K2 mission would have Kepler study four to six "fields" per year, observing each one for a minimum of 40 days but preferably for 70 to 80 days, Kepler project scientist Steve Howell, also of Ames, said here Monday during his talk at the conference. The spacecraft would study 10,000 to 20,000 targets within each field, he added. All of these fields would be roughly in the plane of Earth's orbit — also known as the ecliptic — because such an orientation would maximize Kepler's compromised pointing ability. The K2 mission would likely turn up many small exoplanets around small stars, including some in the habitable zone. It could also spot a number of alien worlds around bright stars, which would make good targets for follow-up observation by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, an $8.8 billion instrument due to launch in 2018. Audio: Song: Other World Lullaby Musical Artist: McCullah entry submitted by ~tina marie #candotina #skyviews love and light ~tina marie

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The Milky Way over Lake Bumbunga by Silveryway on Flickr.

SKYVIEWS END OF THE WORLD BLUES (REPORT BELOW) MAY 8, 2014 March 8, 2014: First-Quarter Moon The Moon is at first quarter today, indicating that it has completed one quarter of its month-long cycle of phases. It rises around noon, stands high in the south at sunset, and sets in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. As the stars begin to come out, the first-quarter Moon shines above Orion standing in the south. • Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning for most of North America. Clocks spring forward an hour. March 9, 2014: Moon, Procyon and Jupiter As darkness falls this evening the planet Jupiter, the third-brightest object in the night sky, stands close to the upper left of the brightest: the Moon. Two bright lights bracket the gibbous Moon tonight. The brilliant planet Jupiter, which looks like a cream-colored star, stands to the upper right of the Moon at nightfall. Procyon, the brightest star of Canis Minor, is farther below the Moon. Jupiter shines above the Moon this evening, as shown above. Although they look fairly close together, Jupiter is almost 1,800 times farther away — and 40 times larger in diameter. March 10, 2014: Cancer Cancer, the crab, is well up in the east at nightfall, to the lower left of the Moon. Although it is part of the zodiac, its stars are dim. The brightest, Beta Cancri, is so faint you may not be able to see it from a suburb, let alone a bright city. The Moon forms a distorted rectangle with Jupiter, Castor, and Pollux this evening. In addition, the Moon and Jupiter form a bent line of three with Procyon to their lower left. On March 6th, 2014, a meteor slammed into the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the night skies of north central New Mexico. Thomas Ashcraft captured the sights with a his fireball camera and the sounds with a forward-scatter meteor radar. Asteroid 163 Erigone will occult the star Regulus on March 20th, 2014 at 2:06am ET and can be seen in part of the Northeast United States. Asteroid 2014 DX110 was captured by Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project (virtualtelescope.eu). Its closest approach is ~217,000 miles away from Earth on March 5th, 2014. (looped) A space rock in the asteroid belt, named P/2013 R3, has fragmented into as many as 10 pieces. The four largest fragments are larger that 2 football fields each. Astronomers are investigation the cause with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. Audio: Special Guest Stars and Musical Artist: End of the World Blues Chicago Blues SenorX, joel_sattlersongs, MarkAlanDooley, GumGuru, HarpLips TRIVIA - HISTORY 1804 7 Mar The Royal Horticultural Society, dedicated to advancing good gardening, is founded by Joseph Wedgewood.. 1936 7 Mar Hitler marches German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.. 1945 7 Mar US forces capture the bridge at Remagen and cross the Rhine, overcoming Germany's last natural line of defence 1917 8 Mar Russia's 'February Revolution' begins with riots in Petrograd over food rations and conduct of the war.. 1975 8 Mar The UN creates International Women's Day 'to commemorate the historic struggle to improve women's lives'.. 1983 8 Mar US President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union 'an evil empire', initiating a more hardline US policy.. Love one another, help your neighbor and give peace. Light the world. Love and light. ~tina marie #skyviews #candotina

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