Three years later a British physicist, Arthur Eddington, watched what happened to light from stars that were close in the sky to the sun during a solar eclipse.
On Monday, January 21st, the Moon will appear amazingly close in the sky to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.
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The weeklong festivities include fireworks and concerts and showcase all manner of dazzling displays, from a special shape rodeo to lighted nighttime " balloon glows, " but the climax is the handful of spectacular mass ascensions in which all participants take to the sky in two waves.
It was then expected to initiate two firings on its big cruise stage, one to lift it higher in the sky and the second to despatch it to Mars.
While American strikes against al- Qaeda's empty training camps are easy to deride, the Pentagon could perhaps have secured useful information by using its eyes-in-the-sky to observe what happens after the strikes: who comes, in which vehicles, to inspect the damage, and where they go afterwards.
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Once a balloon hits terra firma, or something close, it radios its location back to its successor in the sky, which then relays the data to the SkySite website.
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.
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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.
And then, almost as if what he held was a divining rod, the staff in his hand pointed to the sky westerly.
In order to understand what we are seeing up in the sky, we have to look down at its reflection.
The sun is beginning to sink in the sky, bathing the South Bank in a golden glow.
Patrick won one race in seven years of IndyCar racing, but if she can defy the odds and manage to win in Nascar then the sky is the limit.
Finding an American satellite operator to plug the gap in Sky Global Networks may well seem to him to be the crowning jewel in a glittering business career.
For skywatchers in the UK, the graphic below indicates roughly where in the northern sky to try to spot 2012 DA14.
Those include in-game access to the All-22 "eye in the sky" video so you can do your own Madden-style telestration, and a fixed fan-chosen camera, sideline or cable skycam view for those that need to feel like they're playing a video game.
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This isn't the first time Malaysia Airlines has instituted a controversial policy relating to kids in the sky.
And new software, plus the ability to vary the projected sizes and brightnesses of planets and moons, makes it possible to simulate the sky from anywhere in the solar system: to see earthrise from Mars, for example, or to watch Jupiter's moons rise and set from a vantage point just above the gas giant's cloud-tops.
After a three-year inquiry, Ofcom ruled in 2010 that, to ensure competition in the pay-TV retail market, Sky should be forced to sell its main sports channels at prices set by the regulator.
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.
In Japan, where the craze started, youngsters have been dispatching their Tamagotchi to the big hen-house in the sky.
He said they were concerned about how they would answer media enquiries on the back of the leak to Sky, in the absence of putting out a full statement.
When all was said and done, the food delivery concept proved to be pie in the sky.
People didn't believe at first that William Herschel could see the things he was claiming to pick out in the sky, but then his speculum mirror technology was so in advance of anything that had been produced at that stage.
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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.
The Death Manager lets you tell Google what to do with the data from all of your Google accounts, including most intimately, your Gmail messages, if your account goes inactive, presumably because you have gone to the great server farm in the sky.
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But I think it does set the stage in which the White House or someone in congress ought to produce a pie-in-the-sky counter budget.
The conventional wisdom held that Al-Jazeera was ready to bombard the Premier League with money in order to swipe the majority of games from Sky.
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"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...
And once the planets lined up in their orbits, Earth would "overtake" the others, meaning that Jupiter and Saturn would appear to change direction in the night sky.
But Miss Murdoch has also contributed to the change in Sky's fortunes, by commissioning programming that people are beginning to watch.
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