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Sep 16, 2024 | wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Tony RiceReporter

While it may not be as dramatic as a total lunar eclipse, Tuesday night’s partial lunar eclipse is still a great reason to step outside and look up. Just don’t expect to see a glowing red or orange Moon lighting up the evening sky. The Earth's shadow will appear as a darker, possibly slightly orange or even reddish color to Moon's upper left edge.

Aug 19, 2024 | wral.com | Tony Rice |Tony RiceReporter

The super (blue sturgeon) moon rises at sunset Monday – the first of four this year. A full moon gets the "super" label when it occurs close enough to perigee, the point in the Moon’s not-so-circular orbit that is closest to Earth. This makes the full moon look a little bigger – though not enough to really notice – and noticeably brighter.

Aug 13, 2024 | wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Tony RiceReporter

The flame is extinguished, the Olympic flag has been passed from the Mayor of Paris to the Mayor of Los Angeles. 11,119 athletes from 206 nations competed across 329 medal according to the IOC, nearly triple the number competing in the 1924 Paris games. The summer games have drawn more than 10,000 athletes beginning in 1996 in Atlanta, including the covid-complicated 2020 games in Tokyo. Host country France entered at least one athlete in each of the 45 disciplines from Archery to Wrestling.

Jul 3, 2024 | wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Tony RiceReporter

Tony Rice explains SpaceX Starlink launch and what we saw in the skyWRAL viewers from across the state in Raleigh, Wake Forest, Clayton, Dunn, Fayetteville, Pikeville, Zebulon and Roseboro sent photos Wednesday of a SpaceX launch in Florida. SpaceX successfully launched additional Starlink satellites Wednesday, adding to its fleet of over 6,000 satellites providing internet connectivity to pizza box sized antennas and now directly to cell phones.

Oct 10, 2023 | wral.com | Tony Rice |NASA Ambassador |Tony RiceReporter

Note: Calculations are for city centers and seconds are provided for comparison purposes. The actual times will vary across the city and even slightly by atmospheric conditions at the time. For more locations, visit NASA's Eclipse Explorer and click on a location for times and what the eclipse will look like from that location. Eye protection is required to view any portion of a partial eclipse like this one.