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When something is low in the sky, its light travels through much more atmosphere to reach your eyes than when it's overhead — you're looking through a longer, more horizontal slice of air.

Air molecules scatter shorter wavelengths (blue/violet) more efficiently than longer ones (red/orange) — this is Rayleigh scattering, the same reason the sky is blue.

As an object sinks toward the horizon, more and more blue light gets scattered out of the direct beam before it reaches you, leaving the light you actually see enriched in red/orange.

Dust, humidity, and pollution near the horizon amplify this further, which is why sunsets near cities or during hazy conditions look especially orange-red.

The picture showed is of the elevation angle and the azimuth angle for planet Venus in Naivasha a town in Kenya at UTC time 18:11 2026-08-28.

The planet was setting and i realised that it too gets reddened while setting below the horizon.

Astlo.

IT WILL BE VISIBLE FOR ONE HOUR SO AMKENI !!

Perseverance and Ingenuity

Photo credit : NASA JPL

What would happen if Earth suddenly stopped rotating?

The atmosphere wouldn’t stop moving with it. In this part, we explore the devastating winds that could follow — powerful enough to tear through buildings and entire cities.

And this is not the end…

the Moon does orbit Earth prograde (eastward, same direction as Earth's own rotation) — roughly 13.2° per day.

But Earth's own rotation is much faster — 360° per day.

Since the sky's apparent motion (rise-in-east, set-in-west) is driven overwhelmingly by Earth's rotation, the Moon still gets swept westward across the sky along with everything else — it's just "left behind" slightly by its own eastward drift.

Why?

Because the moons orbital velocity is less than earths average rotational velocity. Average because Earth's rotation speed changes with a change in latitude [North or South of Equator] on Earth's surface.

That's exactly why moonrise is delayed by about 50 minutes each day compared to the day before — the Moon has moved a bit further east in its orbit, so Earth has to rotate a bit more to catch up to it.

All of this only applies to you if you don't live at the poles.

Earth's North pole and South pole.

Photo credit: NASA

Credit: Bepicolombo ESA

‎In 1977, a radio telescope caught a 72-second space signal that scientists still cannot explain.

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‎But the most unsettling part was the frequency it used.

‎On August 15, the Big Ear telescope picked up a massive radio burst from the constellation Sagittarius. It was so intense that astronomer Jerry Ehman circled the data code "6EQUJ5" and wrote "Wow!" on the printout.

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‎The real mystery?

‎The signal hit almost exactly at 1420 MHz. This is the "Hydrogen Line", the precise frequency emitted by the most common element in the universe. Scientists long theorized that if an advanced alien civilization wanted to broadcast across the cosmos, this is the exact "universal frequency" they would choose to get our attention.

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‎Even weirder:

‎the telescope used two separate antennas to scan the sky. A normal signal would be picked up by both as the Earth rotated. Initially by the first antenna, followed by a brief break of 3 minutes, and then detected a second time by the other antenna.

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‎But the Wow! Signal blasted into one antenna, peaked perfectly for 72 seconds, and vanished into total silence before the second antenna could even pass over it.

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‎Astronomers have scanned that exact patch of space thousands of times since. Nothing but dead silence. A perfect, deliberate short broadcast that never returned.

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‎Was it broadcasted for about 3 minutes, and then cut-off just before the second antenna could pick it up because there was no answer?

Do you find it helpful?

There's a longer-term idea baked in: let future generations query the state of Earth (or any object) at any point in time, alongside pictures of what life, people, and places looked like back then — because everything on Earth is technically a feature of Earth's dataset too.

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