Could Comet ISON Produce a Meteor Shower?
Anticipation is building as Comet ISON plunges into the inner solar system for a close encounter with the sun in November 2013. Blasted at point-blank range…
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Do Noctilucent Clouds Owe Their Existence to Meteor Smoke?
Anyone who’s ever seen a noctilucent cloud or “NLC” would agree: They look alien. The electric-blue ripples and pale tendrils of NLCs reaching across the night…
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The first noctilucent clouds of 2009 have been seen over northern Europe. On May 29th, photographers recorded wispy electric-blue tendrils spreading across the twilight skies of…
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