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A List of Best Places to View Alpha Centauri

2023-10-19 by Phil Butler

An exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri B

Alpha Centauri is our closest neighboring star system, four light-years from Earth. Here are six of the best places to view the system from.

Tags: 'Obz', ALMA, Alpha Centauri, Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, astronomy, binary star systems, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Elon Musk, Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory, Haleakalā National Park, Kosmos space ship, Lowell Observatory, Milky Way, NASA, Proxima Centauri, space travel, starts, triple star systems, Voyage to Alpha Centauri

Tomorrow to Be Marked by 2020’s Rare “Blue Moon”

2020-10-30 by Argophilia Travel News

Blue Moon

Tomorrow, a second full moon will occur in the month of October for the first time since March of 2018. The 27-day rotation of the moon’s cycles just4 happens to fall within October this year.

Tags: atronomy, blue moon, full moon, Halloween events, NASA, werewolves

Mission to Crete: Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko Tests Philoxenia

2016-07-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

© Sputnik/ Maksim Blinov

Yuri Malenchenko (54) is at the new Cretan resort Anemos Luxury Grand Resort recouping from 6 months aboard the international space station, according to the news from Chania province.

Tags: Anton Shkaplerov, crete, Crete travel, Greece, Minas Liapakis, NASA, Philoxenia, Roscosmos, Yuri Malenchenko

500 Injured in Russia Meteorite Strike [Video – Russia Today]

2013-02-15 by Phil Butler

Asteroid 2012 DA14 Flight Path

Reminiscent of the movie Armageddon, meteors rained smaller destruction on the Chelyabinsk region of Russia this morning. Bizarre footage from would be citizen photo-journalists revealed fragments of space debris plummeting to Earth. Reports of some injuries and light damages have emerged as well.

Tags: meteor, NASA, Russia asteroid, Russia meteor strike, Russia travel, space junk

You Don’t Have to Travel Far for the Quadrantid Meteor Shower

2013-01-02 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Meteor crossing the sky

The Quadrantids will peak in the wee morning hours of January 3rd, at a maximum rate of about 80 per hour, varying between 60-200. If you live in Australia and lower portions of South America, you can watch them live, via a NASA Ustream feed.

Tags: NASA, Quadrantid Meteor Shower, travel

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The height of the tourism season is around the corner here in Crete, but a worsening water crisis threatens not only tourist destinations but agriculture and village life. Here is a roundup of the most recent news about the situation. Drought Deepens, Reservoirs Reach Critical Levels Crete is bracing for one of its driest summer […]

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