Or Christmas: I mean can mistletoe and tree lights really compete against bright multi-colored blasts in the sky?

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She found that a simple, ten-minute imagery task (such as picturing clouds in a bright blue sky or a cheery stack of watermelons in a pickup truck) can turn brooding into focused action.

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But it is at night that the mosque glows - its 82 domes light up like dozens of bright light bulbs in the dark sky.

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Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.

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Cooke and his observing team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have already recorded several bright fireballs from the Eta Aquarids and are looking forward to seeing more using the agency's network of all-sky meteor cameras.

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