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Trinity of Cosmic Events Send Ominous Warning to the World | GRAVITAS




Published 4th August 2026 (3:40)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4nOv8TBY0I

Garbage day came and went, Wednesday Aug 12, 2026, and we’re still OK. Haven’t watched yet, Might Be Back©️. 🧐

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Wasn’t sure if this would suit the All sports, all the time thread, and figured that this is the next best place. Nostalgia Alley.

I found the ego/glamour shots pretty basic, as fancy shots go. Lots of cross side banks, couple long banks, lots of ticky (no typo) combos, one or two bank kicks. Lame.

The more banks, at least to 5, the more stable it becomes. I’m good at threes and fives, but am having trouble with my fours. The fellow I’m learning fours from, we play Walmac Bank Everything, only. Kicks count, no soft cushions.

I don’t play for money, because I know that that doesn’t sharpen me up. I just play for fun.

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Poolhall Junkies | FULL MOVIE | Christopher Walken, Chazz Palmintieri | Billiards Thriller

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A talented pool hustler who has stayed out of the game for years, must go back to his old ways when his little brother gets involved with his enemy, the very man who held him back from greatness. Poolhall Junkies stars Mars Callahan, Chazz Palmintieri, Ricky Schroder, Rod Steiger, Allison Eastwood, Christopher Walken, Michael Rosenbaum, and more.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rA_RM28UO7w

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No Wonder He Terrifies Everyone



Actor Christopher Walken.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R7faoG2ModI

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Richard Syrett's Tales from the Rock & Roll Twilight Zone



From Canada: Richard Syrett (rhymes with carrot) from Strange Planet tells how he got here and brings the rock & roll ghost stories.

Published 12th August 2026 (1:02:21)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gK2e6ZNrtqc

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Father Chad Ripperger - Signs of the Mark of the Beast & the Antichrist | Shawn Ryan



Father Chad Ripperger is a Roman Catholic priest and one of the more experienced exorcists in the country. He talks fast.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I2p_cfipbEw

A classically trained Thomist, Father Ripperger holds degrees in theology and philosophy from the University of San Francisco, master’s degrees from both the University of St. Thomas and Holy Apostles College, and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. His scholarship and experience make him a respected authority on demonology, angelology, spiritual warfare, and the integration of theological principles with psychology.

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Paris Street Food



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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k0B7Va-te44

0:00 Intro to Paris Street Food
0:57 Best Pain Au Chocolat in Paris
7:41 Market in Paris
18:12 Taking the Paris Metro
19:42 Glace Bachir
22:34 French Cheese
28:57 Faste - Croque Monsieur Paris
32:39 Best Crepes and Galettes in Paris
36:58 Amazing Street Food in Paris

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Mysterious Figure

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23 Things That Aren't Recyclable

Think twice before throwing that in the bin




Plastic products carry a recycling symbol with a number from 1 to 7 inside indicating the type of resin used. The ones marked #5 have been difficult to recycle in the past.

We've all probably been guilty of this recycling no-no at least once — discarding a disposable coffee cup or food takeout container in our bin. While you may be thinking you're doing your part to help, your optimistic recycling may actually be hurting the process.

Depending on where you live, there are some items that simply aren't recyclable, including varieties of paper, glass and plastic. Check with your city service provider to know specifics, but here's a list of items that generally are not recyclable, along with suggestions on how you can dispose or reuse them.


Aerosol Cans

Sure, they're metal. But since spray cans also contain propellants and chemicals, most municipal systems treat them as hazardous material.


Batteries

These are generally handled separately from both regular trash and curbside recycling.


Brightly Dyed Paper

Strong paper dyes work just like that red sock in your white laundry.


Ceramics and Pottery

This includes things such as coffee mugs. You may be able to use these in the garden.


Diapers

It is not commercially feasible to reclaim the paper and plastic in disposable diapers. Duh.


Hazardous Waste

This includes household chemicals, motor oil, antifreeze and other liquid coolants. Motor oil is recyclable, but it is usually handled separately from household items. Find out how your community handles hazardous materials before you need those services.

Household Glass



While energy-guzzling standard incandescent bulbs are now a rarity across the U.S. and Europe (save for speciality models), they're still ubiquitous in countries without lighting efficiency standards.

Window panes, mirrors, light bulbs and tableware are impractical to recycle. Bottles and jars are usually fine. Compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) are recyclable, but contain a small amount of mercury and shouldn't be treated as common household bulbs.


Juice Boxes and Other Coated Cardboard Drink Containers

Some manufacturers have begun producing recyclable containers. These will be specially marked. The rest are not suitable for reprocessing including many disposable coffee cups from your local coffee shop.


Medical Waste

Syringes, tubing, scalpels and other biohazards should be disposed as such.


Napkins and Paper Towels

Discouraged because of what they may have absorbed. Consider composting. Tissues and napkins are also included because they typically hold too much residue.


Pizza Boxes

Too much grease. While some compost enthusiasts steer clear of adding pizza box cardboard to their pile, others report no problems. It's that or the trash.


Plastic Bags and Plastic Wrap



Plastic bags may be convenient for us, but they're not terribly convenient for the environment.

If possible, clean and reuse the bags. You can even return them (along with many other plastic film products) to your grocery store or through RecycleBank.


Plastic-Coated Boxes, Plastic Food Boxes, or Plastic Without Recycling Marks

Dispose of safely.


Plastic Screw-On Tops

Dispose separately from recyclable plastic bottles. Remember that smaller caps are a choking hazard.


Shredded Paper

While most plain paper can be recycled, it's hard for recycling centers to determine the type of paper if it's shredded. However, you can use the shredded, plain paper in your compost or mulch.


Styrofoam

See if your community has a special facility for this. Otherwise, no.


Takeout Containers



Plastic takeout containers technically can be recycled if done in the right way.

Plastic containers that contained food can't be recycled unless they are thoroughly rinsed out. Oily residue left on the containers makes them unrecyclable.


Tires

Many states require separate disposal of tires (and collect a fee at the point of sale for that purpose).


Tyvek Shipping Envelopes

These are the kind used by the post office and overnight delivery companies.


Wet Paper

In general, recyclers take a pass on paper items that have been exposed to water. The fibers may be damaged, and there are contamination risks.


Wire Hangers

Most centers don't have the capability to recycle wire. However, most dry cleaners will gladly take them off your hands.


Yogurt Cups

Check with your state. Many centers don't recycle plastics with the numbers three through seven. These items are typically food containers such as yogurt cups, butter tubs, and oil bottles.

Your municipal recycling system gets the final say as to what belongs in your bin. Some areas will restrict more items that we've listed. Other have special programs for dealing with problematic materials. In most cases, municipal systems are happy to provide written guidelines.

Published 20th January 2026 by Chris Baskind - Treehugger.com
https://www.treehugger.com/stop-tryi...hings-11889068


The Big Sort: An Insider's Tour of a Recycling Plant



Every day at the Sims Municipal Recycling facility in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, roughly 800 tons of recyclables meander through a tangle of machines, scanners, and conveyor belts. Mountains of discarded metals, glass, and plastic are sifted, sorted, and bundled into bails, eventually transforming into marketable commodities.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nUrBBBs7yzQ

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Saint Zeno Exorcising the Daughter of the Emperor Gallienus by Filippo Lippi (15th Century)

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Space Rock News



All Sky Fireball Network

Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics.

On August 21, 2026, the network reported 88 fireballs. (88 sporadics)



In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue).

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Mostly Perseids by Jakub Koukal (Valašské Meziříčí Observatory)





Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this all-night, all-sky view. On that night, the total count came to 1,706 meteors. And since that coincided with the peak activity of the 2026 Perseid Meteor Shower, most are perseids. Their overwhelming numbers make them easy to spot.

Quite convincingly, perseid trails all trace back to a single radiant on the sky at the upper right, a region in the annual shower's eponymous constellation, Perseus.

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Dolphins Filmed Using Sea Shells as Tools in Sighting off Australia

Marine biologists have documented Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) using large sea shells to hunt for fish off the coast of Queensland, Australia





Shelling involves a dolphin lifting a large, empty gastropod shell — in this case the bailer shell (Melo amphora), a species that can grow to the size of a football — to the water’s surface and tipping it to drain out a fish hiding inside.

The behavior is considered a form of tool use, a rare trait among animals that has drawn scientific interest for what it might reveal about cognition and culture in the wild.

The new observations were made in Hervey Bay, part of the Great Sandy Marine Park, far from Shark Bay in Western Australia, the only other location where the tactic had previously been confirmed.

“We were on a research boat off Hervey Bay when we spotted a dolphin raising something large out of the water. I started screaming because I know what shelling looks like,” said Dr. Alexis Levengood, a researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

“It’s a hunting behavior where dolphins chase fish into large empty shells, bring the shell to the surface and then shake it to drain the fish into their mouths. We were able to record footage and take photographs of dolphins shelling in the Great Sandy Marine Park, which is the first published record of it on the east coast of Australia.”

A sighting on October 1, 2025, was revealing: a mother dolphin named Maserati surfaced with a bailer shell containing a fish, then dropped the shell to chase her prey; minutes later, in the same spot, her calf, Bentley, was seen picking up the shell and mimicking the behavior.

The sequence offers the first evidence suggestive of the skill being passed down directly from mother to calf, a pattern known as vertical social transmission.

“We saw the mother surface with a shell, the fish inside escaped and the dolphin dropped the shell to chase the fish,” Dr. Levengood said.

“Then, minutes afterwards, the dolphin calf picked up the shell and held it the same way as its mother.”

“Our footage provides the first potential evidence of maternal social transmission — a process by which offspring learn behavior by observing the actions of its mother. It challenges the belief that dolphins learn this tool use from their peers.”

Published 12th August 2026 by Natali Anderson – SciNews.com
https://www.sci.news/biology/dolphin...lia-14988.html

Shelling Behavior by Bottlenose Dolphin



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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uFb_B1YzMNA

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What Sun Tzu said, including all the variations referenced by Wiki.

Was it John Lennon who said make love not war? Whoever it was, they were pushing back on millennia of defensive dogma. But they had some soul mates from history too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis...2C_para_bellum



Si vis pacem, para bellum

Si vis pacem, para bellum (Classical Latin: [siː wiːs ˈpaːkɛ̃ ˈparaː ˈbɛllʊ̃]) is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war." The phrase is adapted from a statement found in Roman author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's tract De Re Militari (fourth or fifth century AD), in which the actual phrasing is Igitur qui desiderat pacem, præparet bellum ("Therefore let him who desires peace prepare for war").[1][2] The idea which it conveys also appears in earlier works such as Plato's Nomoi (Laws).[3][4] The phrase presents the insight that the conditions of peace are often preserved by a readiness to make war to defend said peace when the need arises.[5]


Derived uses

Whatever the source, the adage has become a living vocabulary item itself, used in the production of different ideas in a number of languages. For example, in 1790 during his first annual address to a joint session of Congress, George Washington stated "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."[6]


Si vis bellum para pacem

For example, historian Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne made reference to the foreign policy of Napoleon Bonaparte:[7]

Everyone knows the adage... Had Bonaparte been a Latin scholar he would probably have reversed it and said, Si vis bellum para pacem.


Si vis pacem para pactum

In the United States, the National Arbitration and Peace Congress of 1907, presided over by Andrew Carnegie said:

These vast armaments on land and water are being defended as a means, not to wage war, but to prevent war... there is a safer way ... it requires only the consent and the good-will of the governments. Today they say ... If you want peace, prepare for war. This Congress says in behalf of the people: Si vis pacem, para pactum, if you want peace, agree to keep the peace.[8]


Si vis pacem fac bellum

"If you want peace, make war." The solution does not cover the case of the nation that does not desire peace. Imperial Germany went to war in 1914 and was castigated by Richard Grelling, a German-Jewish pacifist, in J'Accuse (1915). In 1918 Grelling wrote again, this time as an expatriate in Switzerland. Citing Woodrow Wilson's "The world must be safe for democracy" speech before Congress on April 2, 1917, Grelling says:[9]

When all other means fail, ... the liberation of the world from military domination can in the extreme case only take place by battle. ... in place of si vis pacem para bellum a similarly sounding principle ... may become a necessity: Si vis pacem, fac bellum.


Si vis pacem para pacem

"If you want peace, prepare for peace." The great wars of the 19th and 20th centuries were opposed by the philosophy of pacifism, which in the 19th century was associated with early socialism, even though the socialism of the 20th century often lacked pacifistic tendencies, preaching violent revolution instead. The pacifism that opposed the world wars traced its lineage to Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin, an early French socialist and one of the founders of Saint-Simonianism. As early as April 2, 1841, he had said in a letter to General Saint-Cyr Nugues:[10]

Le fameux dicton ... me semble beaucoup moins vrai, pour le XIXe siècle, que Si vis pacem, para pacem.
The famous dictum ... seems to me much less true, for the 19th century, than Si vis pacem, para pacem.
with reference to Algeria. By way of elucidation Enfantin goes on to say that war could have been avoided if a proper study of Algeria had been made.


The parabellum

The main clause of the adage was used as a motto by German arms maker Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM), and is the source of the term Parabellum as applied to firearms and ammunition (especially the 7.65mm Parabellum and the 9mm Parabellum cartridges). "Parabellum" was the telegraphic address of DWM.[11][12]

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Small World

The Biggest Known Galaxy Is 1.7 Million Light-Years, And We Can't Comprehend The Scale





The Universe can pull some wild monkeyshines, especially when it comes to scale.

From giant black holes to massive sheet-like walls of galaxies, our reality is full of mind-boggling chonkers.

But a galaxy named IC 1101 is bonkers in a way that dramatically exceeds the upper end of normal.

Using the deepest observations yet of IC 1101, astronomers have made the strongest measurement to date of its physical extent, identifying the boundary of its main stellar body some 260 kiloparsecs from its center.

That makes it around 1.7 million light-years across – which makes it, according to a team led by astrophysicist Carlos Marrero de la Rosa of Spain's Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the largest galaxy known to date.

And the kicker? It's still growing.

"For comparison, the stellar disk of the Milky Way is roughly twenty times smaller in diameter," Marrero de la Rosa said.

IC 1101 has long been recognized as a large galaxy. It sits within a cluster of galaxies named Abell 2029 like a well-fed spider sitting in a web, glowing with the contentment that can only be expressed with trillions upon trillions of stars.

But pinning down its diameter has been something of a challenge, because the stars at the outer limits of its main body blend in with the diffuse starlight permeating the cluster around it – like the spider's legs blending in with the strands of its web, if you will.

“A galaxy does not usually have a sharp edge like a solid object. Its stars become progressively more diffuse with distance from the center," Marrero de la Rosa said. "So the 'edge' is not the place where stars suddenly disappear, but the radius where the main body of the galaxy stops behaving as a coherent structure."

Published 22nd August 2026 by Michelle Starr – Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-big...hend-the-scale
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Whoa! The JWST's Ancient Galaxies Are Much More Massive Than Thought




This JWST image was the first image released by the telescope. It shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 and some of its members. One of the telescope's first discoveries was that early galaxies were already more massive than we can explain only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. New research says that these theory-breaking galaxies were actually even more massive.

One of the surprises delivered by the JWST concerns the sizes of early galaxies. The powerful telescope examined the ancient light from galaxies at high redshifts, within about 500 million years after the Big Bang. The observations showed that these galaxies were already much larger than they should be, according to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution.

However, new research says that these galaxies were actually even more massive than thought.

Astronomers can't count and measure every star in a galaxy. Resolving individual stars in distant galaxies is challenging. Instead, they measure the masses of galaxies based on the Initial Mass Function (IMF).

The IMF is an important link between stars and their galaxies. It not only describes an initial stellar population of a galaxy in terms of their masses, formation, and evolution, but by extension, the evolution of the galaxy itself. The IMF basically assigns probabilities to stars and their masses at the time of formation.

Now, new research published in Nature Astronomy examines how the IMF may be giving us the wrong idea about the JWST's problematic early galaxies. The research is titled "Hidden mass in early galaxies revealed by bottom-heavy initial mass functions," and the lead author is Chloe Cheng. Cheng recently earned her PhD at Leiden University in the Netherlands, partly based on this work.

“If a galaxy were a city, the brightest stars would be the skyscrapers that immediately catch your eye from afar,” lead author Cheng said in a press release.

“Our models demonstrate that a far more numerous population of low-mass stars is concealed by those rare, bright stars, like houses hidden between skyscrapers. As a result, this galaxy turns out to be much more massive than previous estimates suggested.”




JADES-GS-z14-0 is one of the JWST's early galaxies that is much more massive than we thought galaxies could be so soon in the Universe's history. The JWST observed the galaxy only about 300 million years after the Big Bang, when it was already massive and luminous.

Published 19th August 2026 by Evan Gough – Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/articl...e-than-thought

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Clearest image yet of the Lion Nebula

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=diitf2K603Y

From the JWST: The image reveals the nebula's complex structure and the white dwarf at its center, which continues to shape it. This stellar remnant created the nebula when it reached the end of its life cycle and shed its outer layers. This star looks like the lion's nose, while the extended gaseous envelope, shells of dust and tendrils resemble its "mane." The central star is so hot that it illuminates everything inside the bubble, ionizing hydrogen and causing it to expand and destroy much of the dust it encounters.

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-webb-c...mage-lion.html

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The True Story of St Christina the Astonishing

Indestructible Miracle-Woman




Patron saint of the mentally ill

So, Christina the Astonishing is sort of a saint.

She lived in the late 12th century and early 13th century, right around the time the Church was forming the modern canonization process, and she’s never been been formally canonized. Nonetheless, she was popularly considered a saint for centuries after her death. Her relics have been preserved, she was included in a version of Butler’s Lives of Saints, and was even honored on local liturgical calendars at various points.

But what about that title? What made her so “astonishing”?

Just about everything. If anyone deserved such a title, it was Christina.

Born in 1150 in a small town in present day Belgium, Christina was orphaned as a teenager and worked as a shepherdess. Then, sometime in her early 20s, she suffered from a massive seizure. When the episode passed, she was lying on the ground completely limp. Unable to see breathing or hear a heartbeat, those with her pronounced dead. Soon after, a funeral was held at her local parish.

In the middle of the funeral service, she suddenly woke up. Full of energy, she stood right up like nothing had happened. When she realized she was surrounded by a large group of people, she started levitating, and flew up to the roof.

This wouldn’t be the only time she levitated. She levitated often, she said, because she couldn’t bear the spiritually stinky smell of sinful people.

When she finally stopped levitating at the funeral, she explained she had in fact died. After her soul separated from her body, she was given a glimpse of the horrors of purgatory. God then gave her a choice: either remain dead and go to heaven, or return to earth and do penance for those in purgatory. Moved to zeal at the sight of those suffering in Purgatory, she chose the latter. The next moment, she came back to life.

She took her charge to do penance very seriously.

She voluntarily lived in extreme poverty, wearing only rags and living without a home. She avoided human contact as much as possible. But deprivation wasn’t enough: she also sought out suffering to increase her penance.

People watched her intentionally throw herself into fires and remain there for extended periods of time. She would appear to be suffering greatly, with terrible shrieking, but then would exit the fire completely unscathed.

She allowed herself to be attacked by dogs and would intentionally run her body through thickets of thorn bushes.

And in winter, she would immerse herself in a nearby river and remain in the nearly freezing water for hours or even days on end. As if this wasn’t extreme enough, she would apparently even allow herself to be sucked into water wheels of nearby mills, getting spun around.

Again, as painful and harmful as these things seemed to be for her, she would always emerge seemingly unharmed.



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Public opinion was divided about her: Was she just insane? Was she a holy woman sent to warn people of the fires of purgatory? Or she was perhaps demon possessed? Government officials jailed her twice, though both times only briefly.

After being released the second time, she joined a Dominican monastery. Her prioress said that, despite her extreme behavior, she was always obedient. Her reputation spread across the region, and both rulers and other holy people sought her out for advice and spiritual aid.

Amazingly, despite all of her physical abuse, she died at the ripe age of 74 of natural causes.

If this is all just too unbelievable for you, here are a few things to note: First, in addition to the many peasants who witnessed her behavior, the historian and Cardinal Jacques de Vitry claimed to have been a personal witness of her incredible behavior, such as going into fires and emerging unharmed. Second, as mentioned, some contemporary saints held her in high regard and sought her advice. Third, Thomas of Cantimpré – writer, theologian, and student of St. Albert the Great – researched her life within a few years after her death and wrote a report, with memories of her life still fresh in people’s minds.

There remains a strong devotion to her in Belgium.

https://www.churchpop.com/christina-...uctible-woman/



Her page in a 17th century calendar of saints



Fr Steve tells the story.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rmn69EDWN6I

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A Near Total Lunar Eclipse: Aug. 27–28





Good thing eclipses come in pairs. If you weren't able to see the Aug. 12th total solar eclipse due to location or clouds, orbital mechanics has your back. The same near-perfect alignment of the solar system's celestial trinity — Sun, Earth, and Moon — holds just long enough for the full Moon to slip into Earth's dark, central shadow, or umbra, Thursday night, August 27–28.

Greatest eclipse occurs at 12:13 a.m. EDT, when 96% of the Moon glows like a smoldering sunset. The remaining bright lunar sliver pokes out into Earth's lighter, outer shadow, or penumbra, silvering the northern limb.

There are two different ways of describing how much of the Moon the Earth's umbra covers. The first is magnitude, which is the fraction of the Moon's diameter covered by the umbra. For this eclipse, it's 0.93 or 93%. Then there's obscuration, or the total amount of the Moon's surface area obscured by the umbra, in this case 96%. Take your pick.





Maximum eclipse will be visible throughout the Americas except for Hawaiʻi and parts of Alaska. In Anchorage, the Moon rises 40% in shadow after greatest eclipse. From the West Coast, the Moon rises with the partial eclipse either underway or soon to begin. Astrophotographers with a wide-open horizon would want to take advantage of the chance to frame the Moon and a favorite landscape in a telephoto lens. In Africa and Europe, the lunar shadow-dance occurs during the wee hours up through dawn August 28th.

Published 19th August 2026 by Bob King – Sky & Telescope
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronom...-on-aug-27-28/



From the BBC.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNs3MOJbc3g

After being shut out of this month's total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth's shadow briefly envelops the moon.

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Can one see the partial lunar eclipse safely with the naked eye?



Yes.

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Posted by Bluegreen (here)
A Near Total Lunar Eclipse: Aug. 27–28
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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNs3MOJbc3g

Saint Christina the Astonishing: my kinda gal. If I would ever bother her, she would just fly away!


More about the two week pairing of solar and lunar eclipses, from Veritasium. Timing of the SE, segment starts at 3:30. LE talk rounds it out, 5:47-6:22.

L = 22:44.

00:00 The 2026 Total Solar Eclipse
02:00 Why there are more total solar eclipses in the Northern Hemisphere
03:30 How we get 5 solar eclipses a year
06:20 Why the Sun turns white only during totality
09:27 How the eclipse faked an element
11:10 The weird shadows during the eclipse
14:06 Shadow band effect
17:00 Filming the eclipse from space

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J1WoNuemKOg

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Geminid Melodies

Qu Xiaofeng captured this astroimage spotlight while chasing the Geminid meteor shower — pausing to play guitar beneath the glow of Barnard's Loop as meteors streaked past overhead.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=U1Jf4B6z1Gk