• If skies are clear, individuals can view the conjunction by looking at the Moon and finding the brightest star in the sky next to the Moon, which will be Jupiter.

    ENGADGET: PSA: Slooh's Space Camera broadcasting Moon / Jupiter conjunction right now

  • White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • The Chinese believed that the rising of Arcturus, the fourth-brightest star in the sky, caused spring to burst forth, while the Egyptians thought that the appearance of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, brought about the annual flooding of the Nile.

    ECONOMIST: The Star of Bethlehem

  • In the chapter on skyscrapers, for example, Mr Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more populous, apartment living will become the norm.

    ECONOMIST: Welcome to a world of high living

  • We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a semblance of moon, always in the same spot in the sky, and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of ragged clouds, always the same.

    NEWYORKER: Bear Meat

  • Siberia time in the morning in June of the year 1908 high in the sky above the Forest in the remote wilderness of Tunguska Siberia heard an explosion that laid flat more than 800 square miles of the forest with all the trees pointing away from the center of the blast with most all the trees laying on their side.

    FORBES: 'Doomsday Asteroid' Bigger Than Expected

  • The name Rapyuta is taken from the Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki Castle in the Sky - in the film it is the place where all the robots live.

    BBC: Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live

  • She's getting as long in the tooth as she is in the snout, but Concorde is still the only supermodel in the sky.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Travel Watch

  • The moon waxed over the Crescent City like a sliver over the Mississippi River, a cradle in the sky over the cradle of jazz.

    NPR: Danza Quartet Welcomes 2009, Bayou Style

  • Wolinsky, who now runs the photo advice site PixBoomBa.com, tends to shoot city buildings when the natural light in the sky equals the light inside a building (usually around dusk, just as evening lights are turned on).

    FORBES: Fail-Proof Tips For Great Vacation Photos

  • Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • The blue square represents Windows (neutral, cool, in the background of everything like the sky in the XP homescreen.) The red square represents Office (active, constructive, hot like overheated brain activity.).

    FORBES: Microsoft's New Logo And The Mysterious Case Of The Missing Yellow Square

  • On Monday, January 21st, the Moon will appear amazingly close in the sky to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.

    ENGADGET: PSA: Slooh's Space Camera broadcasting Moon / Jupiter conjunction right now

  • The morning before, she had decided to leave the coast, convincing herself that she wanted to drive across the Rockies and see the big sky in the Western states.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • "Other announcements to be assigned to the railway siding in the sky include the scheduled arrival time at the final destination and "change here for connecting services to...

    BBC: End in sight for 'pointless' rail announcements?

  • Above him, the moon persists in the sky despite the growing sunlight, making a silhouette of a golden eagle as it bobs up and down, riding warm currents in the air.

    BBC: The road to Hollywood, California

  • Pushing back the greens a bit, I made room in the lower part of the arrangement for hits of the saturated blue of fragrant hyacinth and the lighter blue of the smaller grape hyacinth to reflect the tonal shifts in color of the sky and water in this idyllic scene.

    WSJ: A Flower Arrangement Inspired by a Bonnard Painting

  • Gaia will detail the precise position, distance, movement, and composition of the brightest stars in the sky (out as far as the next galaxies such as Andromeda).

    BBC: A billion pixels for a billion stars

  • Because the astronomers were looking at the asteroid low in the sky, they were viewing it through a lot of atmosphere, which scattered some of the light and made the object fainter, he said.

    CNN: Phew! Asteroid to miss Earth in 2040, NASA says

  • "I saw the saw the fire in the sky, " he told The Associated Press.

    NPR: Deadly Blasts Rip Egyptian Resort of Sharm el-Sheik

  • Now fans can see the game tape coaches use to evaluate their teams with the "eye in the sky" All-22 view that shows all of the players and end zone cameras.

    ENGADGET: Next season NFL will release All-22 game tape, relax blackout rules and start doubleheaders later

  • The sun is beginning to sink in the sky, bathing the South Bank in a golden glow.

    BBC: Twenty-one days out in London

  • During the polar summer, the sun circles in the sky, never going down.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • But the first officer, still believing that the object in the sky above him was the cargo plane, initiated a dive to avoid the perceived imminent collision -- sending the jetliner toward the Air Force plane.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Tholen told CNN there was about a half-hour between when the asteroid got high enough in the sky for the telescope to point at it and before the sky became too light to observe it.

    CNN: Phew! Asteroid to miss Earth in 2040, NASA says

  • We all shouted, and the happiness at having found them again was already fraught with the pain of having lost them now forever, as the moon rising in the dark sky sent out only the reflections of the sun on its lakes and fields.

    NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon

  • And we hit the notorious bars in the sky: Vertigo, atop the Banyan Tree (banyantree.com), which has D gibbering with health-and-safety-induced anxiety and requires us to neck two vast martinis each to facilitate the walk down the vertiginous steps clinging to the side of the building.

    BBC: Postcard from Bangkok

  • The North Star was as legible and unwavering in the water as it was in the sky.

    WSJ: Nicaragua's San Juan River by Boat

  • Until then, all the great science in the world may be just pie in the sky.

    FORBES: Hold Off On Investing In Stem Cells

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