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Explanation: What's happened to the sky? Moonlight illuminates a snowy scene in this night land and skyscape made on 2013 January from Lower Miller Creek, Alaska, USA. Overexposed near the mountainous western horizon is the first quarter Moon itself, surrounded by an icy halo and flanked left and right by moondogs. Sometimes called mock moons, a more scientific name for the luminous apparitions is paraselenae (plural). Analogous to a sundog or parhelion, a paraselene is produced by moonlight refracted through thin, hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals. As determined by the crystal geometry, paraselenae are seen at an angle of 22 degrees...

On February 20, two 1960s cultural icons died: journalist Hunter S. Thompson and actress Sandra Dee. The days following their deaths were filled with eulogies about their lives and careers—eulogies that say much more about us than about the deceased. Thompson was the inventor of what came to be known as “gonzo journalism.” Like the so-called “new journalism,” pioneered by Tom Wolfe and others, “gonzo journalism” put the writer at the center of the story. But unlike Wolfe and company, you could never be sure whether what Thompson was describing actually ever happened. That’s mostly because, as he told us,...

Actress Sandra Dee dies at age 63 ’50s teen idol starred as ‘Gidget’, married Bobby Darin Actress Sandra Dee replaced Debbie Reynolds in the "Tammy" films, including 1962's "Tammy and the Doctor." BREAKING NEWS MSNBC News Services Updated: 3:23 p.m. ET Feb. 20, 2005LOS ANGELES - Actress Sandra Dee died Sunday, according to a published report. She was 63.

LOS ANGELES - Actress Sandra Dee died Sunday, according to a published report. She was 63. Her son Dodd Darin, who's father was actor-crooner Bobby Darin, told CNN the actress had been hospitalized to undergo treatment for kidney disease and pneumonia before she passed away on Sunday morning.