Good morning, Whitewater.
A new month begins with afternoon showers and thunderstorms, and a high of eighty-four. Sunrise today in 5:19 AM and sunset 8:27 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with fourteen percent of its visible disk illuminated.
NASA’s Goddard Flight Center published a video of solar observations that’s remarkable:
A coronal mass ejection burst off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014. The giant sheet of solar material erupting was the first CME seen by NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. The field of view seen here is about five Earth’s wide and about seven and a half Earth’s tall.
IRIS must commit to pointing at certain areas of the sun at least a day in advance, so catching a CME in the act involves some educated guesses and a little bit of luck.
On June 1, 1980, television news in America begins a fundamental change:
…CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. The network signed on at 6 p.m. EST from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. CNN went on to change the notion that news could only be reported at fixed times throughout the day. At the time of CNN’s launch, TV news was dominated by three major networks–ABC, CBS and NBC–and their nightly 30-minute broadcasts. Initially available in less than two million U.S. homes, today CNN is seen in more than 89 million American households and over 160 million homes internationally….
Here’s a recording of CNN’s first hour of cable news, from that date: