Mickey Gubas' Blog: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Five Migrant Bodies Recovered, 1,100 Rescued: Italy Coastguard by REUTERS

By REUTERS

The bodies of five migrants were recovered and more than 1,100 others were rescued from overcrowded boats off the coast of Libya on Sunday, Italy’s coastguard said.

Published: July 31, 2016 at 10:15AM

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Restrictions on Tap for Southern New England Lobster Fishery by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New restrictions are on tap for southern New England’s historic lobster fishery, which is grappling with an unprecedented decline in population.

Published: July 31, 2016 at 04:42AM

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Skydiver Becomes First Person to Jump and Land Without Chute by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps made history when he became the first person to leap without a parachute and land in a net instead.

Published: July 30, 2016 at 11:04PM

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Coast Guard Ends Search for Abandoned Alaska Fishing Vessel by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Officials are calling off the search for the fishing vessel Alaska Juris.

Published: July 30, 2016 at 08:27PM

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Ripples Through a Dark Sky

Sunlight ripples through a dark sky on this Swedish summer midnight as noctilucent or night shining clouds seem to imitate the river below. In fact, the seasonal clouds often appear at high latitudes in corresponding summer months. Also known as polar mesospheric clouds, they form as water vapor is driven into the cold upper atmosphere. Fine dust supplied by disintegrating meteors or volcanic ash provides sites where water vapor can condense, turning to ice at the cold temperatures in the mesosphere. Poised at the edge of space some 80 kilometers above, these icy clouds really do reflect sunlight toward the ground. They are visible here even though the Sun itself was below the horizon, as seen on July 16 from Sweden’s Färnebofjärdens National Park. via NASA http://ift.tt/2a7ecFo

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The Latest: Skydiver Must Wear Chute but Aims Not to Use It by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Latest on a skydiver’s attempt to jump 25,000 feet into a net (all times local):

Published: July 30, 2016 at 04:29PM

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NOAA: Mass Die-Off at Marine Sanctuary Off Louisiana, Texas by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Federal scientists say a massive die-off is taking place on a coral reef of a national marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.

Published: July 30, 2016 at 12:50PM

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Skydiver Makes Final Preparations to Jump Without Parachute by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Skydiver Luke Aikins figures his next leap into thin air will start pretty much like the thousands that preceded it, only with one small but significant difference: This time when he steps out of the plane at 25,000 feet he won’t take his parachute…

Published: July 30, 2016 at 05:53AM

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Friday, July 29, 2016

Blue Danube Analemma

The Sun’s annual waltz through planet Earth’s sky forms a graceful curve known as an analemma. The analemma’s figure 8 shape is tipped vertically at far right in this well-composed fisheye view from Budapest, Hungary. Captured at a chosen spot on the western bank of the Danube river, the Sun’s position was recorded at 11:44 Central European Time on individual exposures over days spanning 2015 July 23 to 2016 July 4. Of course, on the northern summer solstice the Sun is at the top of the curve, but at the midpoints for the autumn and spring equinoxes. With snow on the ground, the photographer’s shadow and equipment bag also appear in the base picture used for the composite panorama, taken on 2016 January 7. On that date, just after the winter solstice, the Sun was leaving the bottom of the beautiful curve over the blue Danube. via NASA http://ift.tt/2aw0M3J

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U.S. Sailor Lends Hand to Clean Rio’s Bay Before Games by REUTERS

By REUTERS

Bobbing on Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay in a blue and white fishing boat, American sailor Brad Funk uses a plastic bin to scoop rubbish from the waters where Olympic sailing races will take place next month.

Published: July 29, 2016 at 02:09PM

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13-Year-Old Boy Reels in 200-Pound Shark on New Jersey Beach by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A 13-year-old boy fishing with his father on a New Jersey beach has reeled in a 200-pound shark.

Published: July 29, 2016 at 10:14AM

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Vietnam Says Taiwan Firm’s Pollution Affected 200,000 People by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toxic waste discharged from a Taiwanese-owned steel complex in central Vietnam harmed the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, including 41,000 fishermen, the Vietnamese government said in tallying the damage from what it has called the country’s…

Published: July 28, 2016 at 06:43PM

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Paid Notice: Deaths ADLER, ROY by Unknown Author

By Unknown Author

ADLER–Roy Lee, died on July 26. Dr. Adler, an employee of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, was a fellow of the New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. Among…

Published: July 28, 2016 at 04:01PM

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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Herschel’s Eagle Nebula

A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. This false-color composite image views the nearby stellar nursery using data from the Herschel Space Observatory’s panoramic exploration of interstellar clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Herschel’s far infrared detectors record the emission from the region’s cold dust directly. The famous pillars are included near the center of the scene. While the central group of hot young stars is not apparent at these infrared wavelengths, the stars’ radiation and winds carve the shapes within the interstellar clouds. Scattered white spots are denser knots of gas and dust, clumps of material collapsing to form new stars. The Eagle Nebula is some 6,500 light-years distant, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake). via NASA http://ift.tt/2aApCiB

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Spare Times for Children Listings for July 29-Aug. 4 by LAUREL GRAEBER

By LAUREL GRAEBER

A select guide to cultural events for children, teenagers and families.

Published: July 28, 2016 at 08:00PM

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Zane Grey’s Oregon Cabin Added to Historic Places Registry by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Zane Grey’s one-room cabin on Oregon’s Rogue River, where in the words of the famous novelist “it flows through a lonely valley set down amid the lofty green mountain slopes,” has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Published: July 28, 2016 at 09:10AM

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