What’s up in the May 2013 night sky

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Spot popular astronomical sights this month including nebulae, a galaxy trio and the site of a recent planetary discovery.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog Sandy Aftermath

    Sewage overflows from Hurricane Sandy analyzed

    Treatment plants, pumping stations and pipelines were overwhelmed and billions of gallons of untreated sewage flowed into hundreds of rivers, streams, bays, and streets from Virginia to Rhode Island.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

    VIDEO: Gigantic hurricane spotted on Saturn

    NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spotted a gigantic hurricane swirling inside a mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as “the hexagon” on Saturn.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog 201303anomalies

    March global temperature report: 10th warmest March on record

    Even though March 2013 will be remembered in Virginia for its unusual cold, wet and snowy weather, the Earth as a whole was much warmer than average.

  • Weather / Weather Blog tornado

    Five year anniversary of tornado outbreak

    Tornadoes hit SE VA on April 28, 2008

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog SaturnFullMoon

    Exceptional Full Moon & Saturn viewing tonight!

    Tonight, look for the Full Moon with bright Saturn very close to it in our night sky.

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    NASA: Hubble sees Comet ISON

    Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope has a sneak preview.

  • News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog Sun

    VIRAL: Watch three years of Sun in three minutes

    NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog severeweatheralert

    Mecklenburg County storm survey concludes damage caused by straight-line winds

    Even though the storm system exhibited some characteristics of a tornado, no touch-down was confirmed.

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