Corona from Svalbard

During a total solar eclipse, the Sun’s extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. Streamers and shimmering features that engage the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single photograph. But this composite of 29 telescopic images covers a wide range of exposure times to reveal the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The aligned and stacked digital frames were recorded in the cold, clear skies above the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway during the Sun’s total eclipse on March 20 and also show solar prominences extending just beyond the edge of the solar disk. Remarkably, even small details on the dark night side of the New Moon can be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth. Of course, fortunes will be reversed on April 4 as a Full Moon plunges into the shadow of a New Earth, during a total lunar eclipse. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Fc1hba

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Nevada Rancher Bundy Holds Rally in Support of Public Lands Bill by REUTERS

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The Nevada rancher who was at the center of an armed standoff with federal agents last year held a peaceful rally on Tuesday in support of a proposal that would give the state greater control of public lands, local media said.

Published: March 31, 2015 at 05:33PM

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Body of 3rd Member of Missing Fishing Party Found in Montana by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Authorities in northern Montana have recovered the body of a Canadian man, the last of three foreign tourists who were found dead after going missing during a November fishing trip.

Published: March 31, 2015 at 06:05AM

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Rise in Illegal Fishing Threatens to Revive Somali Piracy by REUTERS

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A rise in illegal fishing off Somalia could spark a resurgence in piracy, United Nations and Somali fishing officials have warned, nearly three years after the pirates’ last successful hijacking in the Indian Ocean.

Published: March 31, 2015 at 03:15AM

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Yemen Evacuation Shows Chinese Navy’s Growing Role by JANE PERLEZ

By JANE PERLEZ

The Chinese ambassador to Yemen described the evacuation of nearly 600 people as “a significant practice of major power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.”

Published: March 30, 2015 at 09:36PM

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A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden

It appeared, momentarily, like a 50-km tall banded flag. In mid-March, an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection directed toward a clear magnetic channel to Earth led to one of the more intense geomagnetic storms of recent years. A visual result was wide spread auroras being seen over many countries near Earth’s magnetic poles. Captured over Kiruna, Sweden, the image features an unusually straight auroral curtain with the green color emitted low in the Earth’s atmosphere, and red many kilometers higher up. It is unclear where the rare purple aurora originates, but it might involve an unusual blue aurora at an even lower altitude than the green, seen superposed with a much higher red. As the Sun continues near its top level of surface activity, colorful nights of auroras over Earth are likely to continue. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Db5Svb

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Review: Soho Rep’s ‘Washeteria,’ Staged in a Brooklyn Storefront by ALEXIS SOLOSKI

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

The theater’s first all-ages play, staged in a formerly vacant storefront in Brooklyn, is a lightly absurdist take on a coin laundry.

Published: March 30, 2015 at 08:00PM

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Harsh Weather Cripples Fishing and Tourism on Cameroon’s Coast by REUTERS

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For over 15 years, Raoul Meno has been fishing the waters off the coastal town of Kribi in southern Cameroon. He has sometimes had to face down storms and high seas to bring home a catch to support his family. But now, he is scared.

Published: March 29, 2015 at 10:48PM

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Run From Cuba, Americans Cling to Claims for Seized Property by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The smell of Cuban coffee drifts from the kitchen as Carolyn Chester digs through photos, faded with age, that fill four boxes spread across the dining table.

Published: March 29, 2015 at 09:13PM

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Shadow of a Martian Robot

What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn’t human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover currently exploring Mars. Opportunity has been exploring the red planet since early 2004, finding evidence of ancient water, and sending breathtaking images across the inner Solar System. Pictured above in 2004, Opportunity looks opposite the Sun into Endurance Crater and sees its own shadow. Two wheels are visible on the lower left and right, while the floor and walls of the unusual crater are visible in the background. Opportunity is continuing on its long trek exploring unusual terrain in Meridiani Planum which continues to yield clues to the ancient history of Mars, our Solar System, and even humanity. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Mi7EAh

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News Companies See Movies as Opportunity for Growth by MICHAEL CIEPLY

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Some of the most aggressive contemporary purveyors of information, journalistic and otherwise, are betting on feature-length motion pictures.

Published: March 29, 2015 at 08:00PM

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Paid Notice: Deaths MYLES, JEANNE EPSTEIN by Unknown Author

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EPSTEIN MYLES–Jeanne A. M.D., died on March 26, 2015 at age 92. She was born in Jersey City, NJ, the daughter of Samuel and Ray Epstein. She received her B.S. from Douglass College and her M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. An…

Published: March 28, 2015 at 05:06PM

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Diamond Rings and Baily s Beads

Near the March 20 equinox the cold clear sky over Longyearbyen, Norway, planet Earth held an engaging sight, a total eclipse of the Sun. The New Moon’s silhouette at stages just before and after the three minute long total phase seems to sprout glistening diamonds and bright beads in this time lapse composite of the geocentric celestial event. The last and first glimpses of the solar disk with the lunar limb surrounded by the glow of the Sun’s inner corona give the impression of a diamond ring in the sky. At the boundaries of totality, sunlight streaming through valleys in the irregular terrain along the Moon’s edge, produces an effect known as Baily’s Beads, named after English astronomer Francis Baily who championed an explanation for the phenomenon in 1836. This sharp composition also shows off the array of pinkish solar prominences lofted above the edge of the eclipsed Sun. via NASA http://ift.tt/1CWwX5e

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Run From Cuba, Americans Cling to Claims for Seized Property by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The smell of Cuban coffee drifts from the kitchen as Carolyn Chester digs through photos, faded with age, that fill four boxes spread across the dining table.

Published: March 28, 2015 at 08:10AM

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In Thailand, a Mercurial Junta Ruler Known for His Words by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ear tugs. A flying banana peel. Sarcastic remarks about getting smacked, or punched — or even executed. Such is life for the press corps covering Thailand’s notoriously testy military ruler.

Published: March 27, 2015 at 10:01PM

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NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis

Magnificent island universe NGC 2403 stands within the boundaries of the long-necked constellation Camelopardalis. Some 10 million light-years distant and about 50,000 light-years across, the spiral galaxy also seems to have more than its fair share of giant star forming HII regions, marked by the telltale reddish glow of atomic hydrogen gas. The giant HII regions are energized by clusters of hot, massive stars that explode as bright supernovae at the end of their short and furious lives. A member of the M81 group of galaxies, NGC 2403 closely resembles another galaxy with an abundance of star forming regions that lies within our own local galaxy group, M33 the Triangulum Galaxy. Spiky in appearance, bright stars in this colorful galaxy portrait of NGC 2403 lie in the foreground, within our own Milky Way. via NASA http://ift.tt/1xjt5KD

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About 4,000 Fishermen Stranded on Indonesian Islands by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The number of foreign fishermen stranded on several remote eastern Indonesian islands has spiraled to 4,000, including some revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been enslaved.

Published: March 27, 2015 at 03:04PM

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