By Lisa Grosman, Wired
Tuesday morning’s partial solar eclipse produced a gorgeous crescent sunrise in Europe, Africa and Asia as the moon blocked most of the sun’s disk. But for a split second, the sun was also partially blocked by another satellite: the International Space Station. French astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled to Oman to snap this mind-blowing photo of the sun, moon and space station all lined up. The space station took just 0.86 seconds to cross the sun.
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![]() LG today introduced the "Optimus Black," beating Apple's iPhone as the world's thinnest smartphone, and capitalizing on the company's push to become a major player in the industry. The South Korean electronics maker said the Optimus Black measures 9.22-millimeters wide, beating out the iPhone by a mere 0.08-millimeters. The Android-powered Optimus Black also features a 4.0-inch touch screen display that uses LG's new "Nova" technology, which the company claims is the "brightest, clearest and most readable among mobile screens." Nova technology also reduces power consumption by 50 percent over traditional LED displays. ![]() Ted Williams This video from The Columbus Dispatch has deservedly gone viral: The Dispatch reports that since it put the video online yesterday, there have been "scores of phone calls ... media inquiries and potential job offers that could ultimately provide the one-time radio announcer with a second chance." A YouTube copy has been viewed more than 4.5 million times. The video's star, 53-year-old Ted Williams, is "a sporadic resident of a camp behind an abandoned Hudson Street gas station" in Columbus. As you'll see in the video, he admits to having been brought down by drugs — but says he's been clean for more than two years. He's loved radio all his life and says he's had some voice training. ![]() China’s first radar-evading stealth fighter staged a runway test at an airbase in central China on Wednesday and could make its first flight as early as Thursday afternoon, the Hong Kong editor of a Canadian military journal said. But the nation’s state-run media, which called news of the tests “rumors” in Wednesday’s newspapers, sought to play down reports about the aircraft’s capabilities. And comments about the new jet’s test regimen abruptly disappeared from blogs run by Chinese military enthusiasts. The American magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology first reported on tests of the new plane, designated the J-20, in an article released on Monday. Military analysts say that photographs of the new jet on the tarmac at an airfield near Chengdu, have been appearing on blogs since mid-December. A 10-year-old girl has become the youngest person to discover a supernova, or exploding star. Kathryn Gray made the discovery on the weekend.
For amateur astronomers, discovering a supernova is a significant and rare feat. For a 10-year-old amateur to do it — well, that’s astronomical. Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, N.B. is basking in the spotlight after noticing what was later determined to be a magnitude 17 supernova, or exploding star, on New Year’s Eve. It’s in the distant galaxy UGC 3378, about 240 million light years away, in the constellation of Camelopardalis. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada says Kathryn is the youngest person to make such a discovery, which was soon verified by amateur astronomers in Illinois and Arizona. The finding has been reported to, confirmed and announced by the International Astronomical Union. |
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