If your skies are clear after the Sun sets today, September 27th, be sure to head outside to see the total lunar eclipse. This will mark the end of a “tetrad” of four total lunar eclipses spaced a half year apart that began back in early 2014. It’s the last one visible anywhere until 2018.
The full moon will pass through Earth’s shadow and sunlight scattered by Earth’s atmosphere will cast red colors on it!
Unlike the lunar eclipse last April 4th which is the gif from, this one will carry the Moon through the umbra — the dark core of Earth’s shadow — for 1 hour and 12 minutes. If the sky isn’t clear then there are different webcasts to see. Find them here and the timeline here
you know that sin?
You know. That one sin.
The one that you never tell anybody. The one that you’re afraid to tell people, afraid of their judgement, because obviously if they knew they would condemn you. The one that you’ve unwillingly hoarded to yourself, played close to your chest, not letting anyone have so much as a peek. That sin, the one that not even your parents or your best friends or anybody else knows about.
That. One. Sin.
I don’t know when it started. Maybe you were younger, or maybe you were older. Maybe you didn’t know it was wrong, at first, or maybe you knew it was wrong but you did it anyways. Maybe you were pressured into it, felt like you didn’t have a choice. Maybe you were indulging yourself with something that you’d always wanted to try but never had the opportunity to.
And now you look back, and you feel sick. You wish it had never happened in the first place. You wish that you hadn’t been so stupid. You wish that you had listened to whoever had warned you away from it. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, eat this much of you up—it wasn’t supposed to go any further than that first try.
It hurts. You feel dirty. You wonder how God could ever love someone as horrible as you. As dirty as you. As broken as you.
Let me tell you something:
That’s a lie.
Because, secret sin or not, if you have Jesus then you are God’s child.
You have been made clean, whole.
Jesus’ blood is bigger than your sin.
Jesus paid it all.
God loves to forgive.
God loves to heal.
God loves to love.
Don’t hide from him. Run to him. Let him welcome you back.
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The WMAP only had a 9 year mission. It was deactivated October 28, 2010 after 9 years, 1 month and 19 days in space collecting data to help Scientists make some of the most awesome discoveries in the last several decades of mankind.
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Tonight: A Supermoon Lunar Eclipse
(via APOD; Video Credit: NASA’s GSFC, David Ladd (USRA) & Krystofer Kim (USRA) )
Tonight a bright full Moon will fade to red. Tonight’s moon will be particularly bright because it is reaching its fully lit phase when it is relatively close to the Earth in its elliptical orbit. In fact, by some measures of size and brightness, tonight’s full Moon is designated a supermoon, although perhaps the “super” is overstated because it will be only a few percent larger and brighter than the average full Moon. However, our Moon will fade to a dim red because it will also undergo a total lunar eclipse – an episode when the Moon becomes completely engulfed in Earth’s shadow. The faint red color results from blue sunlight being more strongly scattered away by the Earth’s atmosphere. Tonight’s moon can also be called a Harvest Moon as it is the full Moon that occurs closest to the September equinox, a time signaling crop harvest in Earth’s northern hemisphere. Total eclipses of supermoons are relatively rare – the last supermoon lunar eclipse was in 1982, and the next will be in 2033. Tonight’s supermoon total eclipse will last over an hour and be best visible from eastern North America after sunset, South America in the middle of the night, and Western Europe before sunrise.
Check out our infographic on Venus here: http://astronomyisawesome.com/infographics/10-facts-about-venus/
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all too well was requested so i decided to try something different.
imagine: all too well as a voicemail.
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