Strange Heavenly Signs, 2006

"There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  Luke 21:25-26

 

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Comets/Asteroids/Meteors

Miscellaneous

Moon

Planets

Stars/Heavens

Sun

UFO's

COMETS/ASTEROIDS/METEORS:

• Astronomers look for killer asteroids on a collison course with Earth
  Experts say there are about 1,100 comets and asteroids in the inner solar system that are at least a half-mile across, and that any one of them could unleash a global cataclysm capable of killing millions in a single blinding flash.
  Posted 8/21/06

  Astronomers watch the skies for threat of deadly impact
  Posted 3/20/06

• 'Bright green fireball' streaks across evening sky
  Massive explosion heard: 'We were absolutely amazed with what we saw'
  Posted 11/29/06

• Comet cascade
  New images of the ongoing self-destruction of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 are giving astronomers their best view yet of how the solar system's fragile "icy dirtballs" break up.)
  Posted 5/15/06

• Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I <- AWESOME PHOTO!!!
  Posted 5/12/06

• "Deep Impact" Comet Spewed Tons of Water, Study Finds
  Posted 4/5/06

• Former Military ATC Claims Comet Collision with Earth on May 25, 2006
  Posted 4/19/06

• Giant comet may collide with Earth late October
  According to the Russian astronomer Nikolai Fedorovsky, a giant comet flying at top speed is bound for Earth. Should the comet stay on the collision course, it may hit the planet in late October. The impact will cause devastating tsunamis, earthquakes and avalanches, says Fedorovsky. He saw the killer comet in a telescope two weeks ago. He managed to calculate the comet’s trajectory.
  Posted 10/10/06

• GREAT photos of 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
  Posted 5/2/06

• "Hot" Rocks Found in Icy Comet
  Posted 3/15/06

• Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth July 3
  An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth. There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on Monday, July 3, passing just beyond the Moon's average distance from Earth.
  Posted 6/27/06

• Israel warns NASA about double asteroids
  The paper, to be presented this week by Tel Aviv University researchers at the "NEO [Near-Earth Object] Detection and Threat Mitigation" workshop, discusses the discovery of a high incidence of double "Aten-type" asteroids and the danger of their potential collision with Earth.
  Posted 7/7/06

• Large Meteor causes panic in New Zealand
  A LARGE METEOR streaked across a large swathe of New Zealand's South Island today, creating a sonic boom which sent people running from their workplaces and homes, witnesses said.
  Posted 9/13/06

• Mariner Meteor Mystery, Solved?
  "For about 45 minutes the spacecraft experienced a shower of meteoroids more intense than any Leonid meteor storm we've ever seen on Earth," according to Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. The impacts ripped away bits of insulation and temporarily changed the craft's orientation in space. "It was a complete surprise."
  Posted 8/24/06

  A Meteoroid Hits the Moon
  "On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon's Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that's about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. "The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope."
  Posted 8/25/06

  A Meteoroid Hits the Moon!
  There's a new crater on the Moon. It's about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
  Posted 6/19/06

• Mini-Comets Approaching Earth
  Posted 3/27/06

• One-of-a-kind meteorite unveiled
  Posted 4/24/06

• Return of the Leonids
  On Sunday, Nov. 19th, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The result: a shower of Leonid meteors. "We expect an outburst of more than 100 Leonids per hour," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL.
  Posted 11/15/06

• Spitzer Telescope Sees Trail of Comet Crumbs
  Posted 5/12/06

• Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid and gently nudge it from path to Earth
  The proposals are at an early stage, and a spacecraft needed just to send an astronaut that far into space exists only on the drawing board, but they are deadly serious. A smallish asteroid called Apophis has already been identified as a possible threat to Earth in 2036.
  Posted 11/20/06 

MISCELLANEOUS:

• And There Shall be Signs, part 1 (by Chris McDonald of Spirit Journals):
  The sun, moon and stars were created for more than to simply give light to mankind.  The miraculous redemptive plan of God was placed in the heavens for all to see before there was even a Bible. The stars and signs that HE Placed in the heavens so long ago are preaching a message today - JESUS IS COMING! They are telling us to get ready for a time of trouble unknown to man up to this point in history and one that will never be anything like it in the future.  The Lord Jesus said that in the last days the powers of the heavens would be shaken and there would be signs in the sun, moon and the stars alerting a world lost without God the times of the Lord's coming are near. Neighbor, it’s getting late and we are seeing those signs in the heavens at this present time. The total solar eclipse over Egypt on March 29, 2006 coincided with the days of the ninth plague during Israel's exodus from Pharaoh! One day prior to this event on March 28, 2006, Israel held national elections electing a government willing to concede land for peace. On March 29th, Hamas took over full power of the Palestinian Authority that resides next door to Jerusalem. These signs are just another sound of a distant thunder that something major is on the prophetic horizon. We need to be sure that our calling and election is anchored IN CHRIST and Him Crucified. He is the only anchor for our faith in these last days!
  Posted 6/9/06

• And There Shall be Signs, part 2: The Witness of the Stars (by Chris McDonald of Spirit Journals): 
  As we continue part two of our look at the cosmic signs heralding the end times, I want to address the Biblical foundation of studying the stars to give us greater insights to the gospel of redemption found in Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.  There is some disagreement in some circles that the idea God placed the gospel message of Jesus in the stars is legitimate and scriptural. Some take severe issue with the stance that there are prophetic significance in these cosmic signs even though the Lord Jesus Himself said that "there shall be signs in the sun, moon and in the stars."
  Posted 6/9/06

• "And There Shall be Signs" (by Spirit Journals)
  Posted 4/7/06 

• Rare "Rainbow" Spotted Over Idaho
  It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice.
  Posted 7/3/06

• Sci-fi Life Support
  On real-life voyages to the Moon and Mars, science fact may end up imitating science fiction. Indeed, scientists and engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) are putting the finishing touches on systems for capturing exhaled carbon dioxide and urine and turning them into breathable oxygen and drinking water.
  Posted 10/31/06 

• Space Weather.com Shorts
  - December 8, 2006 planetary alignment (Jupiter, Mercury & Mars)!
  - Ring-shaped sunspot!
  Posted 11/29/06

• STRANGE Signs In the Skies!
  Posted 4/8/06

• Strange Spring In the Heavens
  Lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, pleiades eclipse... all within a month!!!
  Posted 4/3/06

• Top 10: The Wildest Weather in the Galaxy
  Raging winds, iron rain and heat waves to melt lead. Explore the Top 10 stormiest places.
  Posted 7/7/06

MOON:

• Is the Moon Still Alive?
  Today in the journal Nature, a team of scientists led by Prof. Peter Schultz of Brown University announced evidence for fresh geologic activity on the Moon. Although lunar volcanism was supposed to have ceased billions of years ago, there's at least one place on the Moon where "outgassing" may have happened within the past 10 million years--and may still be happening today (Schultz, Staid and Pieters, Nature, 444, 184).
  Posted 11/15/06  

• Lunar Leonid Strikes
  Meteoroids are smashing into the Moon a lot more often than anyone expected. That's the tentative conclusion of Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, after his team observed two Leonids hitting the Moon on Nov. 17, 2006. "We've now seen 11 and possibly 12 lunar impacts since we started monitoring the Moon one year ago," says Cooke. "That's about four times more hits than our computer models predicted."
  Posted 12/4/06

• Moon to Hide Star Cluster Early July 20
  If you live anywhere in the eastern half of North America and clear skies are forecast for early on Thursday morning, July 20, then be sure to be outside sometime between midnight and dawn and look for the thin crescent Moon hanging low in the east-northeast sky.  Just about 5-days shy of New phase and 24 percent illuminated, it will again be crossing in front the Pleiades Star Cluster, making for a very beautiful scene in steadily held binoculars or a small telescope.
  Posted 7/18/06

• Moonquakes
  Posted 3/21/06

• NASA to build permanent base on the moon
  Posted 12/5/06

• Shady Drama: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse March 14
  Posted 3/10/06

• The Sky is Falling
  Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon
  Posted 5/2/06

• Strange Moonlight
  When the Harvest Moon rises on Oct. 6th, go outside. You may notice a few puzzling things.
  Posted 9/29/06

PLANETS:

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  2006 Transit of Mercury
  On Wednesday, Nov 8th, the planet Mercury will pass directly in front the Sun.
  Posted 10/23/06

  An Alignment of Stars and Planets
  Something remarkable is about to happen in the evening sky. Three planets and a star cluster are converging for a close encounter you won't want to miss.
  Posted 5/31/06

• Asteroid Crash on Mercury Splattered Earth, Study Says
  Posted 4/5/06

• Beware the Mars Hoax
  On August 27th, Mars ... will look as large as the full Moon." Not! (But there WILL be a conjunction of Venus & Saturn... which signifies the "birth" of a KING!)
  Posted 7/31/06  

• Bright Star Vega's Secret Revealed <- FASCINATING!
  The flashiest resident of the early summer night sky is spinning so fast that it's close to flying apart.
  Posted 4/14/06

• EXCERPT FROM SPIRIT JOURNALS:

  Among the Hebrews, the planet Jupiter had a special meaning. The Hebrew name is “Tzedeq,” which means “righteous one.” It was called the Star of David and it represented kingship, coronations and the birth of kings.

   Now, on to the news story:

• Colossal storm seen on Saturn
  A COLOSSAL, swirling storm with a well-developed eye is churning at Saturn's south pole, the first time a truly hurricane-like storm has been detected on a planet other than Earth. NASA images showed the storm on the giant, ringed planet was about 8000km wide, measuring roughly two thirds the diameter of Earth, with winds howling clockwise at 550km/h.
  Posted 11/10/06

  A Growing Intelligence Around Earth
  A satellite orbiting Earth is learning to think for itself. This artificial intelligence offers a powerful new way to study Earth, and it may prove useful on other planets, too.
  Posted 10/27/06 

  A Heavenly Sky Show on the 4th of July
  At sunset, just as the fireworks are about to begin, the Moon and Jupiter will pop out of the twilight side-by-side
  Posted 6/30/06

  Huge Storms Converge
  The two biggest storms in the solar system ["Red" and "Red Jr." on Jupiter] are about to go bump in the night, in plain view of backyard telescopes. The two are converging. Closest approach: the 4th of July
  Posted 6/21/06

• Jupiter growing another red spot
  Posted 3/15/06

• Jupiter Spawns a New Red Spot
  Posted 3/8/06

• Mars's Gravity Captures NASA Spacecraft
  Posted 3/11/06

• Martian Misinformation
  If Mars ever came close enough to Earth to rival the Moon, it would alter Earth's orbit and raise fantastic tides...  If you want to see something truly astronomical on August 27th, wake up before dawn on Sunday and look east. Venus and Saturn are having a close encounter, as shown in the sky map, above. The two planets will be stationed less than half-a-degree apart in the rosy glow of the rising sun.
  Posted 8/25/06 

• Mercury Crossing the Sun Wednesday
  Posted 11/7/06

• Mystery Sand on Saturn Moon
  Posted 5/5/06

• NASA Makes Announcement
  One of Saturn's moons shooting out massive jets of cold water!
  Posted 3/10/06

• Northern Spring on Mars
  Posted 3/27/06

• Photo in the News: Pluto Has Two More Moons, Hubble Confirms
  Posted 3/4/06

• Planet enters 'ecological debt'
  Planet enters 'ecological debt'... Growing demand eats into Earth's natural capital, say the authors
  Posted 10/10/06

• Planetary Conjunction Triple Play on Deck Sunday
  Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies.
  Posted 12/11/06

• The Pull of Jupiter
  The giant planet is having a close encounter with Earth all month long.
  Posted 5/5/06

• Saturn May Have Millions of Mini-Moons, Images Show
  Posted 4/1/06 

• Saturn Moon Has Water Geysers and, Just Maybe, Life
  Posted 3/11/06

• Scientists discover puzzling giant planet
  Scientists said on Thursday they have spotted an unusually large and light planet orbiting a distant star -- a discovery that could force them to reexamine theories about how planets are formed. "We have discovered a very bizarre new object," research astrophysicist Robert Noyes said at a news conference. "The people who do theoretical models are left scratching their heads as to what's going on."
  Posted 9/18/06

• Scientists Find a World of Neptunes
  Scientists looking for planets around stars beyond our sun have found a system that contains an asteroid belt and three Neptune-sized worlds, one of which orbits in a zone where liquid surface water could exist.
  Posted 5/19/06 

• Strange 'twin' new worlds found
  A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System. A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent years but this is the first set of "twins". Dubbed "planemos", they circle each other rather than orbiting a star.
  Posted 8/7/06  

• "Super-Earth" Discovered Orbiting Distant Star
  Posted 3/14/06

• Venus Meets a Planet Named George
  This month, Venus can guide you to a naked-eye planet that ancient astronomers inexplicably failed to see.
  Posted 4/14/06

• VIDEO: The Mega-Monster Storm on Saturn!
  Posted 11/15/06

• X-ray Transit of Mercury
  Using a high-resolution X-ray telescope, Japan's  Hinode spacecraft captured some unique and beautiful images of last week's Transit of Mercury.
  Posted 11/20/06 

STARS/HEAVENS:

• An Alignment of Stars & Planets
  Something remarkable is about to happen in the evening sky. Three planets and a star cluster are converging for a close encounter you won't want to miss.
  Posted 6/19/06

• Black hole gulps remote star
  Posted 12/7/06

• Black holes spotted on collision course
  Two set to merge, creating a single super-supermassive black hole
  Posted 4/10/06

• "Cool" Brown Dwarf, Small Star Found Near Earth
  Posted 3/24/06

  Distorted solar system discovered
  Discovered just 11 years ago, a class of oddball "failed stars" continues to baffle as well as enlighten astronomers. Now researchers have spotted for the first time one of these failed stars, called a brown dwarf, with a companion planet — both orbiting a sun-like star.
  Posted 9/22/06

  "DNA Nebula" Discovered
  Posted 3/18/06

• Doomed Star Eta Carinae
  Possible supernova???
  Posted 3/27/06

• Eclipse of the Pleiades
  Posted 4/3/06

• Galaxy crash proves dark matter existence <- NO, invisible "LIGHT" [God] matter keeps them from flying apart!
  Scientists realised decades ago that galaxies rotated much faster than their mass should allow, giving rise to the idea that invisible dark matter keeps them from flying apart.
  Posted 8/23/06

• Mystery Object Delays Return for Space Shuttle
  Landing had been scheduled for Wednesday morning. But a poor weather forecast and concerns that something crucial floated out of the craft prompted the delay, space shuttle communicator Terry Virts told the crew.
  Posted 9/20/06

  Odd cosmic blast puzzles astronomers
  Is it a gamma-ray burst? A supernova? Amateurs might weigh in
  Posted 3/1/06

• Supernova Explosion captured in 'real time'
  Astronomers say they have witnessed a stellar explosion - or supernova - unfolding in real time.
  Posted 09/01/06

• Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System <- INTERESTING!
  "The heliosheath is important to humans," continues Stone. "It helps protect us from galactic cosmic rays." Galactic cosmic rays are subatomic particles accelerated to nearly light speed by supernovas and black holes. Astronauts out in space are exposed to the particles—and that's not a good thing. Cosmic rays can penetrate flesh and damage DNA. Fortunately, the heliosheath deflects many cosmic rays before they ever reach the inner solar system. "Magnetic turbulence in the heliosheath scatters the particles harmlessly away."
  Posted 9/22/06 

• VIRTUAL SOLAR SYSTEM (AWESOME!!!)
  Posted 3/11/06

SUN:

• Active Sun!!!
  Posted 3/20/06

• A Coronal Hole Targets Earth
  High speed solar wind particles from a large coronal hole are buffeting Earth's magnetosphere.
  Posted 7/7/06

• Crescent Solar Eclipse <- VERY strange!!!
  When the day begins in South America on Friday, Sept. 22nd [TWO days before RAMADAN], something won't be quite right: the rising sun will be shaped like a crescent. It's the beginning of an annular solar eclipse.
  Posted 9/20/06

• Eclipse Photographed by Space Station Crew
  Posted 3/30/06

• Greatest [solar] eclipse hits
  (19 PHOTOS!)
  4/10/06

• Major Solar Flare
  Posted 12/6/06

• Major Solar storm headed for Earth
  Posted 12/14/06

• New solar twin could shed light on another Earth
  Posted 4/4/06

• NOAA TRACKING SPACE WEATHER EVENT
  A significant geomagnetic storm is expected to impact the Earth beginning early Thursday afternoon around 1:00 p.m. Eastern time, according to forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo. Impacts from this event can cause problems with High Frequency communications, satellite operations and induce currents in power grids.
  Posted 12/15/06

• Scientists Grapple Over Deadly Sunspot Cycle
  Posted 12/13/06

• Scientists Spot 'Tsunami' on the Sun
  It is unusual to see such an event from a ground-based observatory, Balasubramaniam said. And it was also unusual that it occurred near solar minimum, when the Sun is at its least active during an 11-year cycle.
  Posted 12/11/06

• Solar Eclipse Envelopes Israel in Brief Darkness
  Posted 4/3/06

• Solar flares will disrupt GPS in 2011
  Navigation, power and communications systems that rely on GPS satellite navigation will be disrupted by violent solar activity in 2011, research shows.
  Posted 10/3/06

• Stronger Solar Storms Predicted; Blackouts May Result
  Posted 3/8/06

• Sun's Activity Increased in Past Century, Study Confirms
  The energy output from the Sun has increased significantly during the 20th century, according to a new study.
  Posted 9/28/06

• Sun's next 11-year cycle could be 50 pct stronger
  Posted 3/7/06 

• Sun's Next Stormy Cycle Starts
  Astronomers say the Sun has begun its next cycle of activity, part of an 11-year ebb and flow in sunspots and solar flares.
  Posted 8/24/06

• Symbol of Islam and Solar Eclipse Over Israel
  Posted 4/7/06

• Total Solar Eclipse Broadcast Worldwide (VIDEO!)
  Posted 3/30/06

• Turkish scientists try to calm quake fears ahead of solar eclipse
  Posted 3/20/06

UFO's:

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:  And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven [ 7 ] thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven [ 7 ] thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven [ 7 ] thunders uttered, and write them not. (Revelation 10:1-4)

• Click HERE for photos of the strange object found near the space shuttle Atlantis!  It looks like the angel with the scroll in Revelation 10!!!  REALLY odd!!!
  Posted 10/16/06 (original story 9/26/06)  

• Dashcam Captures Lights In Sky
  LAKEWAY, Texas -- Bright lights that were caught on camera bolting across the sky Tuesday night have a lot of Central Texans asking: What were they?
  Posted 8/21/06

• Missile-like metal tube is reported over Hilo Airport
  The FBI and the Transportation Security Administration are investigating sightings of an object resembling a missile flying over the Hilo Airport area Tuesday morning, Hawaii County Civil Defense said.
  Posted 8/18/06 

• US serial number gives clue to mystery of the alien in the attic
  Posted 2/16/06

• UFO visits to Planet Earth to increase, according to blind author
  Posted 3/22/06

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