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This weekend’s full moon is a ‘micromoon’
February’s full moon, known as the snow moon, is set to peak on Saturday, shining bright around the world in the night sky.
This moon will also be a micromoon, meaning it might look slightly smaller than usual. The moon will be at its most full at 7:30 a.m. ET Saturday. Of the 12 full moons in 2024, February’s full moon is the only micromoon of the year, but plenty of solar and lunar eclipses are coming in 2024.
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Dunkin’ adds energy drinks to menu
Dunkin’ is adding an energy drink to its menu to capture some of the buzz generated by heavily caffeinated beverages, which are surging in popularity.
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Dunkin’ is adding “SPARKD’ Energy” iced drinks in two flavors — berry burst and peach — which “provides a revitalizing burst of energy, made with vitamins, minerals and a kick of caffeine,” Dunkin’ says.
It’s notable that Dunkin’ is adding a type of drink that has been the center of legal trouble for its rival.
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MLB has a pants problem
Major League Baseball is showing off new uniforms during this year’s spring training. The biggest problem is they might be showing too much.
A series of pictures have shown a slightly embarrassing problem with MLB’s new look: At least a handful of teams have white pants that are relatively see-through, making for some less-than-ideal pictures.
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Total solar eclipses through the decades
FILE – Eclipse watchers squint through protective filters as they view an eclipse of the sun from the top deck of New York’s Empire State Building in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1932. Full solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic.
FILE – A total solar eclipse is observed above the mountainous Siberian Altai region, about 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) east of Moscow, on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
FILE – A youth dressed as a shaman arrives to take part in a photo session before Tuesday’s total solar eclipse, in La Higuera, Chile, Monday, July 1, 2019.
FILE – A group of school children look at the solar eclipse in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, March 29, 2006, which swept from Brazil to Mongolia.
FILE – The progression of a total solar eclipse is seen in a multiple exposure photograph taken in 5-minute intervals, with the moon passing in front of the sun above Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia, 225 kilometers (140 miles) from Phnom Penh, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1995.
FILE – A child looks through protective glasses at the total eclipse of the sun as a projection of the sun is displayed on card, during a total solar eclipse seen near the Bulgarian’s Black sea town of Varna east of the capital Sofia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.
FILE – The moon starts to block the sun during a solar eclipse seen through a cloud, in Skopje, Macedonia, Friday, March 20, 2015, in the last total solar eclipse visible in Europe for over a decade.
FILE – A man watches a solar eclipse through an x-ray film in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 9, 2016.
FILE – The moon passes in front of the setting sun during a total solar eclipse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
FILE – Shepherd Heinz Greiner watches the beginning of a total solar eclipse near Augsburg, southern Germany, on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1999. A German myth has the cold and lazy male moon, ignoring the fiery passionate female sun during the day most of the time, except for a few bits of passion during an eclipse and then they’d squabble again and the sun would resume shining again, Mark Littmann of the University of Tennessee says.
FILE – The sun sets over Hyderabad, India during the last phases of the last total solar eclipse of the millennium Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1999.
FILE – Vietnamese student Dang Anh Tuan shows a projected image of a solar eclipse at an observatory in Hanoi National University of Education in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, during the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, though in most of Vietnam, people will only be able to see a partial eclipse.
FILE – This multiple exposure photograph shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse over the Gateway Arch in St. Louis on Aug. 21, 2017.
FILE – Magdalena Nahuelpan, a Mapuche Indigenous girl, looks at a total solar eclipse using special glasses in Carahue, La Araucania, Chile, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The total eclipse was visible from Chile and the northern Patagonia region of Argentina, and as a partial solar eclipse in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
FILE – People view a total solar eclipse from La Higuera, Chile, Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
FILE – People watch in darkness during the totality of a solar eclipse on as seen from a hill beside a hotel on the edge of the city overlooking Torshavn, the capital city of the Faeroe Islands, Friday, March 20, 2015.
FILE – In this photo provided by NASA, the International Space Station is silhouetted against the sun during a solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, as seen from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park in Washington state.
FILE – A young shepherd carries a goat as he watches a partial solar eclipse in the village of Bqosta, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 29, 2006. In Lebanon the Education Ministry ordered all public schools closed for the day with advice to families to keep children indoors during the solar eclipse which started around noon.
FILE – People watch the total solar eclipse from Svalbard, Norway on Friday March 20, 2015.
FILE – Using a welder’s mask as protection, a man views a total eclipse in Piedra del Aguila, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The total solar eclipse was visible from the northern Patagonia region of Argentina and from Araucania in Chile, and as a partial eclipse from the lower two-thirds of South America.
FILE – An man uses special glasses to view a partial solar eclipse as people gather near the Sphinx at the Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 20, 2015. The partial eclipse was visible across Europe and parts of Asia and Africa, while sky-gazers in the Arctic were treated to a perfect view of a total solar eclipse as the moon completely blocked out the sun in a clear sky.
FILE – Lucy Maphiri, left, and Margaret Makuya watch the total solar eclipse over Shingwedzi camp in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002.
FILE – Ukrainian man watches a partial solar eclipse through a strip of film in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 29, 2006. The moon began blocking out the sun in the morning in Brazil before the path of greatest blockage migrated to Africa, then on to Turkey and up into Mongolia, where it will fade out with the sunset.
FILE – Images of the crescent shaped sun are projected on a sidewalk as light passes through the leaves of a tree during a partial solar eclipse in Oklahoma City, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017.
FILE – A total solar eclipse is barely visible through the clouds in Carahue, La Araucania, Chile Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The total eclipse was visible from Chile and the northern Patagonia region of Argentina, and as a partial solar eclipse in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
FILE – Steve Spalding of Chattanooga squints through the viewfinder of a movie camera for the sun at a Valdosta industrial park as the solar eclipse began in Valdosta, Ga., on Saturday, March 7, 1970. The search was in vain, however, as the sun remained hidden behind a heavy cloud cover before hiding behind the moon. In background, many of the amateur astronomers who traveled to see the total eclipse from as far as western Canada stand disappointedly beside idle telescopes.
FILE – Members of the British Astronomers Association prepare their telescopes at their campsite near Truro, England, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999, preparing for a total solar eclipse the next day.
FILE – A total solar eclipse is seen from an aircraft over Patna, India, Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
FILE – A crowd reacts to the view of a partial solar eclipse as it peaks at over 70% percent coverage on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in New York.
FILE – Thousands of tourists gather to view a solar eclipse in front of Apollo Temple in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal resort of Side, Turkey, Wednesday March 29, 2006.. Astronomers from NASA and Britain’s Royal Institute of Astronomy watched the eclipse from an ancient Roman theater. The total solar eclipse began at sunrise on the eastern tip of Brazil, crossesed the Atlantic and made landfall in Ghana, headed north across the Sahara, the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey and the Black Sea, and on into Central Asia, where it will finally die out at sunset in Mongolia.
FILE – Stone statues known as Moais stand together during a total solar eclipse in Easter Island, Chile, some 4,000 kilometers (2,480 miles) west of the Chilean coast, Sunday, July 11, 2010.
