PULL · 16 OCT 2017 This was
This was
your sky.
GW170817: A Spectacular Multi-Radiation Merger Event Detected
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COSMIC MESSAGE
On August 17, 2017, for the first time, scientists detected both gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from a single event. It was a spectacular binary neutron-star death-spiral in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4993, 130 million light-years away. Ground-based LIGO and Virgo observatories detected gravitational waves, and seconds later, Earth-orbiting Fermi and INTEGRAL observatories saw the electromagnetic burst.
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GW170817: A Spectacular Multi-Radiation Merger Event Detected
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ZODIAC CONTEXT
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LIBRA
In tropical astrology, 16 OCT 2017 falls under Libra (♎). The sign's window runs from 09-23 through 10-22. Libra is the only zodiac constellation named for an inanimate object, the scales of judgment. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 16 OCT 2017.
THE ALMANAC FOR 16 OCT 2017
DAY
Monday
MOON
Waning crescent, 17% lit
POSITION
Day 289 of 365
METEOR SHOWER
Orionid shower, peaks in 5 days
SAME DAY, OTHER YEARS