Tony Rice
InfoSec data scientist by day, @NASAJPL Ambassador, contributor to @WRAL & @WeatherBrains on space topics by night. Supporter of Oxford commas & ISO8601 dates.
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4 days ago |
wral.com | Tony Rice
The 2025 Lyrid Meteor shower will be visible for the three nights around the peak on April 21 into the following morningThe Lyrid meteor shower peaks early this week begining Sunday evening and continues for three nights. Best viewing is expected around early Tuesday morning. The Lyrids are one of the oldest known meteor showers, with records of sightings going back to 687 BCE.
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1 month ago |
wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador
A meteor was seen streaking across the Carolina skies early Saturday morning. Residents across four states — from central Virginia to Charleston South Carolina and from eastern Tennessee to the outerbanks — reported seeing the space rock to the American Meteor Society. Based on triangulation of those reports, the meteor was first seen over Greensboro traveling nearly due south toward Asheboro.
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Oct 29, 2024 |
wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador
An artist's rendention of a red giant star and white dwarf orbiting each other steller material flows from the red giant to the denser white dwarf. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)About every 80 years, the T Coronae Borealis star system – or T CrB for short – explodes violently, relighting a long dead star. Earlier this year there were strong indications that T CrB was ready to create this new visible star for a few days. This hasn't happened yet, but history suggests it's just a matter of time.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
wral.com | Tony Rice
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan (pronounced Choo-cheen-SHAHN) ATLAS recently survived its closest pass to the Sun and has moved from the morning to the more convenient evening skies. With mostly cloudy skies expected Tuesday evening, Wednesday is looking like the best time to see the comet. Look to the west beginning around 7:30 pm. The comet will appear above and to the right of Venus and to the left of the bright star Arcturus.
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Oct 11, 2024 |
wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Monica Casey |John Rector
It was a colorful display Thursday across North Carolina skies as a geomagnetic storm triggered northern lights in the United States -- and a few people may be able to see the wonder again Friday night. WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth said, for most of the U.S., the northern lights will not be visible again Friday night. The line of maximum visibility Friday night is in the far northern portion of the country, as visible in this map.
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