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Astronomy & Sky

What is really happening overhead: meteor showers, solar storms, auroras, comets and missions — with times, visibility and what tradition made of it.

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Green aurora arc with faint pink pillars glowing low over a still northern lake lined with pine trees at night, reflected in the water
Astronomy & Sky

NOAA Issues G1 Geomagnetic Storm Watch for October 2: Auroras Possible Across the Northern U.S.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm watch for October 2, 2026, after a filament erupted from the sun on September 28 and launched...

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 29, 2026 6 min read
Single meteor streak in the dusk sky above a dark ridge of spruce trees, a lit candle glowing in the foreground
Astronomy & Sky

Draconid Meteor Shower 2026: Best Time to Watch

The Draconids peak the evening of October 8, 2026, under a moonless sky. Why this is the one meteor shower you watch after dinner, not before dawn, and...

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 29, 2026 10 min read
Bright meteor streaks crossing a starry night sky above Orion, with autumn trees on the horizon of a dark field
Astronomy & Sky

Orionid Meteor Shower 2026: Best Time to Watch

The Orionid meteor shower 2026 peaks the night of October 21 to 22. Moonset times, where to look in Orion, realistic meteor counts by sky quality, and a...

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 28, 2026 11 min read
A comet with a glowing golden head, a long dust tail and a thin blue gas tail streaking across a star-filled sky
Astronomy & Sky

3I/ATLAS: Comet or Alien Probe? What the Data Show

On the night of July 1, 2025, a telescope in Río Hurtado, a valley in northern Chile, photographs the sky the way it does every clear night. It...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 28, 2026 31 min read
Total solar eclipse with the black disc of the moon and a glowing white corona above a dark coastal hill at dusk
Astronomy & Sky

Eclipses 2027: All Five Dates and What the US Will See

2027 brings five eclipses, and only two matter for most Americans: the lunar eclipse rising with the Full Moon on February 20 and a faint one before dawn...

Selene Marlow · Astrology September 23, 2026 13 min read
The planet Saturn with tilted rings against black space, its south pole in shadow and warm amber light along the upper edge
Astronomy & Sky

Saturn's Decagon: What Hubble Found at the South Pole

NASA and ESA announced a ten-sided wave around Saturn's south pole on September 2, 2026. What was measured, why the best model said it could not exist, and...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 22, 2026 18 min read
Snow-covered Norwegian valley at blue hour with a frozen river below and a single pale light above the far ridge
Astronomy & Sky

Hessdalen Lights: What 40 Years of Data Show

Sunday, February 12, 1984, 7:35 p.m. On a snowbound plateau in the Norwegian valley of Hessdalen stands a travel trailer full of borrowed instruments. Outside, at four below...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis September 21, 2026 18 min read
Green and red aurora borealis over a dark lake shore with a lone figure watching the northern sky
Astronomy & Sky

Do Solar Storms Affect Your Body? What Research Shows

Every few weeks the same headline moves through the feeds: a solar storm is hitting Earth. Then comes the second wave — headaches, palpitations, sleepless nights, all of...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 15, 2026 12 min read
A single meteor with a bright head and a long fading tail crossing a dark star-scattered night sky
Astronomy & Sky

Shooting Star Meaning and Meteor Showers to Watch

A bright line opens across the sky, lasts less than a second, and is gone. Almost everybody closes their eyes and wishes. That reflex is old and it...

Liv Amara Sonnborn · Tarot & Oracle September 09, 2026 10 min read

Moon magic for the nights you watch the sky

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