If choosing a peanut oil substitute for deep frying, choose a cooking oil with a higher smoke point. The smoke point marks the temperature at which an oil begins smoking and decomposing. Corn oil, canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil and safflower oil all have higher smoke points than peanut oil.
This certainly is an unusual coincidence for the crescent moon to be right there in the days when they are going to be closest together, said Alan MacRobert, senior editor of Sky and Telescope magazine. The moon is the brightest, closest and smallest of the three and is 252,000 miles away. Venus, the second brightest, closest and smallest, is 94 million miles away, while Jupiter is 540 million miles away.
Mission News. Not counting transient events such as gamma-ray bursts, the brightest object in the gamma-ray sky is the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. This glow results from a vast sea of cosmic-ray particles slamming into interstellar gas and dust, generating gamma rays. In fact, 75% of the gamma rays in our galaxy come from these cosmic-ray interactions.