EarthSky News - Dec 14 - Great Red Spot Roots, Geminid Pics

December 14 Great Red Spot Roots, Geminid Pics by:

Juno probes depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot Juno spacecraft data show the Great Red Spot - nearly 1.5 Earths wide - with roots penetrating some 200 miles (300 km) into Jupiter's atmosphere. A grand night for the Geminids Most who saw last night's Geminid meteor shower reported a good display. Early photos here. We'll be adding more throughout the day. Solstice coming up December 21 December solstice 2017 will arrive December 21. High summer for the Southern Hemisphere. For the Northern Hemisphere, the return of more sunlight! Arctic report card 2017 The Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades, scientists said. Tonight … Orion's Belt and the Celestial Bridge The constellation Orion straddles the celestial equator, an imaginary line on the sky's dome, directly above Earth's equator. That's why, in some cultures, Orion's Belt is seen as a Celestial Bridge.

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Tonight … Orion's Belt and the Celestial Bridge The westernmost star in the Belt, or Bridge, lies on the celestial equator, which intersects horizons all over the world at points due east and due west. So Mintaka can be used to find those cardinal directions in your sky.

A grand night for the Geminids "The Geminids are good," reported veteran meteor observer Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona, who captured this fireball as it fell early this morning. More photos here. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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