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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...

Stargazers captured the dazzling display of the annual Perseid meteor shower at UK skies

Image result for Stargazers captured the dazzling display of the annual Perseid meteor shower as it reached its peak on Wednesday night.

Stargazers caught the stunning showcase of the yearly Perseid meteor shower as it came to its crest on Wednesday night. The presentation was generally foreseen for the current year as the shower matched with another moon interestingly since 2007, making an obscured sky. Individuals in the Midlands and the north of England had the best perspective of the meteor shower. Shadiness spoilt perceivability for a few sections of southern England and Scotland. The Perseids - which are bits of Comet Swift-Tuttle - are dynamic every year from around 17 July to 24 August, in spite of the fact that for the vast majority of that period just a couple of meteors an hour are noticeable. The top came overnight on Wednesday, with more than 100 meteors an hour created. 

Image result for Stargazers captured the dazzling display of the annual Perseid meteor shower as it reached its peak on Wednesday night.The top of the presentation happens when the shower's "brilliant" - the point from which the meteors seem to start - is most astounding in the sky.Prof Mark Bailey, executive of Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, said the Perseids were "one of the best and most solid meteor showers of the year".  Robin Scagell, VP of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: "The thing about meteorites is they're a brilliant free scene we can all appreciate, accepting clear skies. "The Perseids are typically genuinely splendid. Additionally, they have a tendency to leave a trail, or train, behind them. You can see the train hanging there shining in the sky for a few moments - infrequently for a few minutes - after the meteor has gone."Marek Kakula, open cosmologist at the Royal Observatory depicted the comet dust as "voyaging speedier than the rate of a slug". 

"When they hit the climate, they wreck in a little dash of light that goes on for only a few moments," he included. For a great many people, meteor showers are best seen with the exposed eye. Specialists exhort discovering a dull area, far from counterfeit light, and an unhampered perspective of the sky.

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