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Spectacular Sky Show: Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

Posted January 25, 2008 8:32 AM

From SPACE.com:

The most spectacular celestial sights over the next couple of weeks are reserved for the early morning sky. Two bright planets will converge, then be joined by the moon. For the past several months, dazzling Venus has been prominent in our morning sky. And about a week ago, brilliant Jupiter also began to emerge from out of the glare of the Sun. The two planets are currently rising out of the east-southeast horizon about two hours before sunrise

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Re: Spectacular Sky Show: Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

01/30/2008 2:59 AM

Once again Security Software here prevented the graphics from opening, because they contain Malware:

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/080125-ns-moon-planets-02.jpg

and

http://a1484.g.akamaitech.net/f/1484/827/1h/www.space.com/template_images/navigation/xml.gif

It is evident the problem is at the akamaitech.net website, where the malware, probably gif-bugs, are inserted into the graphics.

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Re: Spectacular Sky Show: Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

01/30/2008 3:05 AM

The second link only showed a small sign with the letters XML on it, why?

First link was good.

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