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Chickens are more susceptible to dying after hurricanes because of how farmers have to keep them. Chickens require raised houses and need to be kept cool to survive. This means hurricane-force winds alone can take down countless chicken houses and power outages can overheat them, effectively putting local farmers out of livestock and business.
Larry Sessions has written many favorite posts in EarthSky's Tonight area. He's a former planetarium director in Little Rock, Fort Worth and Denver and an adjunct faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He's a longtime member of NASA's Solar System Ambassadors program. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including Space.com, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy and Rolling Stone. His small book on world star lore, Constellations, was published by Running Press.
"Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?" -Peter Tosh Every year, there are two special days where every place on Earth receives the same amount of sunlight -- 12 hours -- split evenly between night and day: the equinoxes!
The alignment of the planets, known as the Great Conjunction, happens every 20 years on average, but this is the closest they have been in 400 years, appearing just 0.1 degrees apart in the sky. However, you have to go back 800 years for the last time they were so close and entered conjunction after sunset - the only time the planets can be visible. In times of old, people may not have understood that a seemingly new appearance of a star may have been a planetary conjunction, which has led some to believe the Great Conjunction could be attributed to the Star of Bethlehem.
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