Sparks fly over ‘missing’ meteorite

The Natural History Museum in Oslo put out a call this week for what its curator feared was a missing meteorite that hadn’t been seen since its publicized landing in the Norwegian capital earlier this year. The museum’s mystery was quickly solved when the meteorite was found in the hands of the country’s most high-profile [...]

Another meteorite found in Oslo

A woman out walking her dog on the large grassy hilltop plateau known as Ekebergsletta in Oslo found the second meteorite in as many days in Norway’s capital on Tuesday. She said it was better that winning the local lottery. “I laid awake several hours last night and thought about how lucky I was,” Liv Kibsgaard [...]

Norway’s Mister Universe

As an astrophysicist, Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard might be expected to have trouble communicating his complicated world to the layman. Not so. Ødegaard has been called Norway’s best communicator, and he certainly ranks as among its most enthusiastic. It was no surprise that dozens of people were already waiting in front of the University of [...]

Lunar eclipse put on quite a show

It seemed to get off to a slow start, but when Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse finally became visible over Oslo, it turned into a roughly 90-minute show that was unique in the light summer skies. Casual observers first spotted a sliver of the moon here over the new office buildings at Tjuvholmen on Oslo’s waterfront. [...]

Astronomers gear for lunar eclipse

A full lunar eclipse was due to be visible over all of southern and central Norway Wednesday night, provided the clouds stay away and it stops raining. State meteorologists said prospects were good, despite the torrential rains of recent days. Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told news bureau NTB that the lunar eclipse will start [...]

Eclipse looms of the midnight sun

Astronomers were looking forward to an unusual eclipse of the midnight sun next week that was expected to be seen over wide areas of central and northern Norway. The eclipse was due to start over the Sunnmøre area from around 11pm Tuesday night, May 31st, and continue for around two hours over Trøndelag and northern [...]

‘Super moon’ illuminates Oslo

An unusually large moon was hanging over Oslo’s rooftops on Saturday night, marking the biggest full moon since 1983 and spurring scores of people to head for a cold night out to get an undisturbed view of the unusual lunar phenomenon.  The so-called “Super Moon” appeared bigger than usual because it was just 577 kilometers [...]