This morning’s hybrid solar eclipse was stunning. But depending on where you are in the world you may not have been able to see it at all, cloud cover may have messed with visibility, or you may have had a partial view. So for anyone who missed it, this is what the eclipse looked like from Kenya. Pretty snazzy, huh?
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This looks like your brain on drugs, but it’s actually a rare solar eclipse from last June in which Venus moved between the Sun and the Earth the way the Moon usually does. Venus looked like a thinner and thinner crescent until it was perfectly aligned with the Sun, creating a Venusian annular eclipse with a ring of fire. The Solar Dynamics Observatory imaged the Sun in three colors of UV light, producing data for this image. The next Venusian solar eclipse will occur in 2117, so you’ll have time to enjoy this photo for awhile before it’s challenged by something even crazier. [APOD]
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In case you missed it, back on April 25th, there was a partial lunar eclipse. While it wasn’t visible everywhere, it definitely was seen by photographer Tamas Ladanyi, who captured this cool multiple exposure image of the 27-minute-long event as it appeared over Tihany, Hungary.
I’ve cropped the image so you can see the most important part, but you can check out the full image over on Tamas’ website, or grab a wallpaper version from NASA. In the mean time, if you happen to live in the South Pacific, there’s another partial lunar eclipse which should be visible from May 9th through 10th.
On Earth, being able to view a solar eclipse is a very rare occurrence. In space, it’s not so rare to witness this event. Recently, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a glimpse of two incredible eclipses in only a seven hour period. The first image below is one that SDO snapped of the Sun being blocked by the Earth.
The second image shows a much more defined photograph of the Sun that was taken a few hours later as the Moon moved in front of the SDO’s view of the sun. The reason the outline of the Moon is so much more crisp and clear is because it has no atmosphere. The SDO is able to see through some of the Earth’s atmosphere giving the Earth a jagged appearing edge during its eclipse.
This month marks the spacecraft’s entry into its biannual eclipse season. This season lasts three weeks, and during that time the Earth blocks the Solar Dynamics Observatory for a period of time each day. The Earth blocked the spacecraft’s view the Sun from about 10:15 PM to 11:45 PM this past Sunday night.
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This beautiful, unreal portrait of the Sun was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory as it was moving into its eclipse season: More »
The Eclipse, LG’s rumored “superphone” heading to AT&T, has just made it through the FCC approval process and is one step closer to seeing availability in time for the holiday season. Known also as the E970, the device unsurprisingly offers the usual AT&T LTE radios (band 4 and 17) but much like we’ve seen in other FCC applications recently, it also tacks on an additional two next-gen radios (bands 2 and 5), likely to get ready for an impending spectrum refarm attempt. From the docs we also learn that the Eclipse will have NFC along with the expected HSPA+ / UMTS / EDGE connectivity. As a recap, the device is rumored to offer a quad-core Krait APQ8064 and a 4.67-inch display with 1,280 x 768 resolution. So it looks like this particular handset is still on course for a Halloween launch, and we’ll keep our eyes peeled for additional information.
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LG E970 Eclipse for AT&T cruises through FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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LG must know that word of the Optimus G has been spoiled, even if it’s not quite ready to put all its cards on the table. While it’s only acknowledging the phone’s identity under a ‘G’ codename, the Korean electronics giant is willing to talk a lot about what’s under the hood. Among the truly new revelations: that uncommonly wide 1,280 x 768 screen, now called the G2 Touch Hybrid Display, is a 30 percent thinner gapless panel that puts the LCD right near the glass in a way that just might be familiar to HTC One X owners. We don’t know for certain if it’s one of those newly-shipping in-cell touch panels, but that name certainly suggests LG is setting aside a few of those cutting-edge LCDs for itself. There’s also a treat in store for those who work their phones to the bone — a newly refined battery can go through 800 full recharge cycles before it gives up the ghost, or about 60 percent more than we’ve seen in the past. Combine these with the quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro we already knew was coming, and the Optimus G could be quite the technology showcase for both LG’s native South Korea as well as the US through a possible Sprint model.
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LG teases that Optimus G will have 768p gapless display, long-lifespan battery originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Aug 2012 01:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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While Qualcomm let the Snapdragon out of the bag a little early, LG’s now caught up and launched a (Korean-only) teaser site for its next LTE smartphone. Promising a second-generation quad-core experience, the new flagship device will offer better power management and graphics performance thanks to the Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset beating away at its core. There’s space on the site for another five videos, which should hopefully give us a little more detail than what we’ve been able to glean from FCC filings. Thumb your Korean dictionary ready and check out LG’s first taster after the break.
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LG teases its new quad-core superphone: Snapdragon S4 Pro is awesome, device still vague (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Back in June, we reported that according to a rumor, the LG Eclipse LS970 could be seeing a launch on both AT&T and Sprint in October. Unfortunately until today, the phone remains somewhat of a mystery and its release date is still unclear. However thanks to a recent FCC filing, it has been revealed that the phone will be sporting Sprint’s CDMA, EVDO and LTE bands, alongside other connectivity options like dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, LTE radio and USB 2.0.
Apart from that, the rest of the specs of the LG Eclipse remains a rumor for now. For those interested, these rumored specs include a Qualcomm S4 Krait quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, an Adreno 320 GPU, an 8MP rear-facing camera with 1080p Full HD video capture capabilities and a slideout keyboard. No word on its choice of operating system but given its late year launch, some are speculating that it could come with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on board. While the specs are merely rumors, at the very least we know that the device exists and whether it will launch stateside with the abovementioned specs remains to be seen, so take this with a grain of salt and check back with us in the future for more updates!
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