Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Sometime between May and September, a white dwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
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“Predictions in astronomy come in two flavors. One is super precise—like the eclipse is going to pass over the city of Houston at exactly 11:35 pm.”
I presume he means a total lunar eclipse, but I didn’t know that one can pass over a city. I think he meant an instead of pm?
Lunar eclipses have a range they're visible from just like solar eclipses do, but they tend to be much larger since it depends only on if the side of the moon being eclipsed is visible from a given location at the time
Understood, but, do they “pass overhead”? I have only heard this term used in discussions about total solar eclipses.
I mean, an eclipse certainly isn’t moving underground…
Depends which side of the planet you’re on
saw one that could only be seen from planes over a pole N/S? forget
I'd imagine they pass overhead in a similar way to that total solar eclipses do.