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Blood moon -- the sequel It's in the sky near
you
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• If you live anywhere in the United States, you
  had a front-row seat (this morning) for the show
  -- a lunar eclipse that turned the moon a burnt
  reddish orange. The full eclipse started at 625
  a.m. and lasts until 724 a.m.. Because it
  happens right after the perigee -- that's when
  the moon is closest in its orbit to Earth -- this
  blood moon will be nearly the size of a super
  moon. This is the second blood moon in a sequence
  of four. April 4, 2015, is the next one, and last
  will appear on September 28, 2015. With that
  frequency, you could be misled into thinking that
  blood moons are fairly common. Guess again. There
  was a 300-year period when there were none. That
  would mean that neither Sir Isaac Newton, Mozart,
  Queen Anne, George Washington, Napoleon, Abraham
  Lincoln ever had a chance to see such a sequence.
  The most unique thing about the 2014-2015
  sequence is that all of them are visible for the
  U.S.A.. Not all will be so lucky. The people of
  Europe, Africa and the Middle East will not be
  able to see this blood moon.

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In Other News

• Two Americans and a German won the Nobel prize in
  Chemistry this year for their work on optical
  microscopy that has opened up our understanding
  of molecules by allowing us to see their
  functions. The winners are Eric Betzig, Stefan W.
  Hell and William E. Moerner, the Nobel committee
  announced Wednesday. Back in 1873, science
  believed it had reached a limit in how much more
  of a detailed picture a microscope could provide.
  At the time, miscroscopist Ernst Abbe said that
  we had reached the maximum resolution. This
  year's winners proved that contention wrong. "Due
  to their achievements the optical microscope can
  now peer into the nanoworld," the committee said.
• Vietnamese authorities are searching for an oil
  tanker feared to have been taken by pirates just
  40 minutes after it departed Singapore for
  Vietnam almost one week ago. The Sunrise 689 was
  carrying 18 crew and 5,200 tons of oil when it
  left Singapore's Horizon port on October 2,
  according to the Vietnamese News Service (VNS).
  The ship's owner, the Hai Phong Seafood
  Shipbuilding Join Stock Company, reported that it
  lost contact with the ship within an hour of its
  departure, VNS said.