2011 Weird News Stories

Number 19 should be a little higher up the list. That's just my opinion. Here's the list. Check out these other Useful Info Nation pages: Our Home Page The Trend Top Conservative Blogs all on One Page Top Liberal Blogs all on One Page Top Political Columnists all on One Page Offbeat News Sites all [...]

List of 2011 scientific discoveries

I'm a little confused. How can the first one on the list be classified as a discovery if it hasn't been confirmed and most other scientists dismiss the findings? Nevertheless, here's the list. Check out these other Useful Info Nation pages: Our Home Page The Trend Top Conservative Blogs all on One Page Top Liberal [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Vista with NGC 2170

From the Latest News section of the October 15, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is of a star-forming region of the sky. Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Clusters, Hartley, and the Heart

From the Latest News section of the October 14, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is of Comet Hartley 2. An alluring Comet Hartley 2 cruised through planet Earth's night sky on October 8, passing within about a Full Moon's width of the famous double star cluster in [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Saturn: Light, Dark, and Strange

From the Latest News section of the October 12, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is a bird's eye view of Saturn's rings. What's creating those dark bands on Saturn? Sometimes it takes a little sleuthing to figure out the how and why of a picture taken by [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Jupiter & Uranus in Opposition

From the Latest News section of the October 8, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image Jupiter and Uranus on the opposite side of the Sun. In late September, two planets were opposite the Sun in Earth's sky, Jupiter and Uranus. Consequently closest to Earth, at a distance of [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Pacman and Hartley

From the Latest News section of the October 7, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's retro image brings back memories of arcade games. Touring the solar system with a 6 year orbital period, small comet Hartley 2 (103/P Hartley) will make its closest approach to planet Earth on October 20 [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Aurora Over Alaska

From the Latest News section of the October 6, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is a colorful one. Are those green clouds or aurora? Photographed above two weeks ago, puffy green aurora help the Moon illuminate the serene Willow Lake and the snowy Wrangell and Saint Elias [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Horsehead & Orion Nebulas

From the Latest News section of the October 5, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is of the two nebulas. The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Rocky Plains of Mars

From the Latest News section of the October 4, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is of the plains of Mars. You stare out across the rocky plains of Mars. Before you, in every direction, is dark sand and bright rock. Although little has changed here for millions [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Zarmina's World

From the Latest News section of the October 1, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is actually an artist's rendition of a faraway world. A mere 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra, red dwarf star Gliese 581 has received much scrutiny by astronomers in recent years. Earthbound [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Airplane in Front of the Moon

From the Latest News section of the September 29, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's cool image is a unique view of our Moon. If you look closely at the Moon, you will see a large airplane in front of it. Well, not always. OK, hardly ever. But if you [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Venus' South Polar Vortex

From the Latest News section of the September 28, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's hot image is what's going on at Venus' South Pole. What's happening over the South Pole of Venus? To find out, scientists have been studying images taken by the robotic Venus Express spacecraft when it [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Dancing Auroras of Saturn

From the Latest News section of the September 27, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's awesome image is of the auroras that surround Saturn. What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other [...]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Equinox and the Harvest Moon

From the Latest News section of the September 24, 2010 Useful Info Nation homepage: Astronomy Picture of the Day Today's neat image is a Full Moon closest to the autumnal equinox. Did you enjoy the moonlight last night? The Full Moon closest to autumnal equinox and the beginning of Fall is traditionally known as the [...]

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