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Antares Rocket Launch At 6PM [Launch Aborted]

[Updated] The maiden flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket – which will streak through the skies high above the island — is scheduled to take place tonight [Apr. 17] during a three-hour launch window beginning at 6 p.m. Bermuda time. The 131-foot rocket will blast off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops... Read more of this article

Rocket Launch Will Be Visible From Bermuda

An untested commercial rocket is poised to launch into space from Virginia’s Wallops Island on Wednesday [Apr. 17] and will be visible from Bermuda during its ten minute sub-orbital flight, SPACE.com reports. The new private Antares rocket, built by the Dulles-based Orbital Sciences Corp., is slated to blast off from the National Aeronautics &... Read more of this article

“Full Worm Moon” Graces The Night Sky

This evening [Mar 27] a full moon lit the night sky, which is traditionally called the “Worm Moon,” as the ground softens and the earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of the robins in North America. This month’s full moon is also sometimes called the “Full Crow Moon”, when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, or... Read more of this article

Close Encounters Of The Bermuda Kind

A 1953 flying saucer alert in Bermuda when US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel were preparing to meet at the Mid Ocean Club was laughed off by security personnel — who said any visiting aliens would be turned away from the exclusive Tucker’s Town property if they... Read more of this article

“Full Snow Moon” Lights Up The Night Sky

This evening [Feb 25] a full moon graced the night sky, which is traditionally called the “Snow Moon,” as the heaviest snows of the year often fall in February in North America. This full month’s moon is also sometimes called the “Full Hunger Moon,” as hunting was often difficult in February so food was scarce for ancient... Read more of this article

NASA Remembers Apollo 1 Flight Crew

The US National Aeronautics & Space Administration yesterday [Jan. 27] paid tribute to three Apollo 1 astronauts killed 46 years ago in a Cape Canaveral launchpad blaze — two of whom had strong Bermuda ties. Virgil [Gus] Grissom, Roger B. Chaffee and Edward White died when a fire swept through their Apollo 1 capsule during a training mission... Read more of this article

Today Is Winter Solstice, Not The Apocalypse

Although some people were expecting the end of the world to occur, today [Dec 21] is actually the winter solstice and the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. The December solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. During... Read more of this article

NASA Satellite Photo Of Hurricane Rafael

The MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Rafael — when it was still a Tropical Storm — in the Atlantic Ocean on October 14th. NASA said: “NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Rafael on Oct. 14 and noticed the bulk of showers and thunderstorms were being pushed north and east of the... Read more of this article

NASA Photo: Tropical Storm Passing Bermuda

NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Tropical Storm Leslie as it moved over Bermuda yesterday [Sept 9]. The center of the storm passed to the east of the island, carrying maximum sustained winds of 60 mph [95km/h]. While Leslie was slow-moving for much of last week — often moving at 1/3mph — today the U.S. National... Read more of this article

Last ‘Blue Moon’ Till 2015 Lights Up Night Sky

Last night [Aug 31] saw the second full moon of the calendar month, which is known as the ‘blue moon’. Despite its name the moon does not actually turn blue, with the term said to be used to describe rare occurrences. The last Blue Moon was on March 2010, and the next one will be in July 2015. The photo below was taken off St David’s... Read more of this article

Photo: “Supermoon” Lights Up Night Sky

The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived last night [May 5], with a “Supermoon” appearing in the night sky. The moon was around 220,000 miles away, compared to an average distance of around 240,000 miles, which caused the moon to appearing about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal full moons. The photo below was taken at around... Read more of this article

Project Icarus: How MIT ‘Saved’ Bermuda

At 12:26 p.m. on June 19, 1968 the asteroid Icarus, which is nearly a mile in diameter, will crash into the mid-Atlantic, just east of Bermuda. Its impact — the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb blast — will splash out some 1,000 cubic miles of sea water and form a crater 15 miles across in the ocean floor. Bermuda will be largely obliterated... Read more of this article

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