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- Why do some radio towers blink? (jeffgeerling.com)
One day on my drive home, I saw three towers. One of them had a bunch of blinking white lights, another one had red lights that kind of faded in and out, and the third one, well, it wasn’t doing anything. I’m lucky to have a radio engineer for a dad, so Dad: why do some towers blink?
- Delta Crucis (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
DELTA CRU (Delta Crucis). Overwhelmed by its neighbors in Crux, one of the most famous constellations of the sky, and fourth brightest in the 4-star pattern, Delta Crucis is the only one with no proper name (though given that Alpha Crucis is called “Acrux” and Gamma Crucis “Gacrux,” no one would likely object to “Delcrux.”)
