Day: December 31, 2011

Quadrantid Meteors Set to Perform on January 4th

Not until early morning does the radiant of the Quadrantid meteor shower start to rise high — and don’t expect to see several at once! Sky & Telescope illustration Celestially speaking, 2012 opens with a bang. The Quadrantid meteor shower, one of the best displays of "shooting stars" all year,[Read More…]

NASA’s GRAIL-A Spacecraft 24 Hours Away From Moon

Artist concept of GRAIL mission. Grail will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail. Image credit: NASA/JPL Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft is within 24 hours of its insertion burn that will place it into[Read More…]

Movie Review: THE ARTIST

Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in The Artist (SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski If Mel Brooks’ 1976 SILENT MOVIE operates on a gimmick, Michel Hazanavicius’ THE ARTIST transcends the gimmick. Both films are corny and sentimental, and in truth, without the treatment of each one as a silent movie,[Read More…]

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