“Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids,” Elton John once said. “In fact, it’s cold as hell. And there’s no one there […]
Category: Astronomy
Live webcast of Comet LINEAR and new meteor shower, 23-24 May
On the night of May 23rd, a new meteor shower, now named the Camelopardalids, will appear in the night sky with potential to become a […]
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The Moon: 10 Surprising Lunar Facts
The moon is Earth’s nearest cosmic neighbor, but it is more than just a big pretty light in the sky.Here are 10 cool, and sometimes […]
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Spot Bright Star Arcturus, Which Lit Up Chicago 81 Years Ago
The brilliant star Arcturus sparkles with a golden yellow or topaz hue, high above the eastern horizon during the mid-evening hours. Arcturus, which lies in […]
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Meteors, Planes, and a Galaxy over Bryce Canyon
Sometimes land and sky are both busy and beautiful. The landscape pictured in the foreground encompasses Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA, famous for its many […]
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When to watch out for spectacular new meteor shower – space – 14 May 2014 – New Scientist
INCOMING! A major new meteor shower is set to streak across the skies next week as Earth passes through dust streams released by a comet […]
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Basketball-sized meteoroid entered the atmosphere over Columbia
NASA Saturday tweeted out a photo of the what many probably saw as a shooting star in the southern sky Thursday night. see more Basketball-sized […]
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Fritz Zwicky’s Extraordinary Vision
If ever a competition were held for the most unrecognized genius of twentieth century astronomy, the winner surely would be Fritz Zwicky 1898–1974. A bold […]
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Magnetar formation mystery solved?
Magnetars are the super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe—millions of times more powerful than the strongest magnets […]
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Rosetta’s target comet is becoming active
The target of ESA’s Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six […]
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NASA seeks help to save Earth
With nothing less at stake than the future of planet Earth, NASA has decided to invite ideas to detect and track asteroids that have the […]
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A Meteor Shower In May? The Camelopardalids Are Coming
May isn’t exactly known for its meteor showers. In fact, this month’s Camelopardalid meteor shower, caused by dust from periodic comet 209P/LINEAR, has technically never […]
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Bus-Sized Asteroid Hurtles Past Earth
An asteroid the size of a double-decker bus has hurtled past Earth just days after it was first spotted. The seven-metre wide asteroid – known […]
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Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley’s Comet Peaks This Week
Early Tuesday morning May 6, just before dawn begins to light up the eastern sky, stargazers have an opportunity to see a meteor shower made […]
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A UFO you can count on
The brightest satellite visible in Brevard tonight will be the UFO 2 rocket body. To avoid writing phrases like 17 seconds past 8:52 p.m., I’ll […]
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A distant galaxy just threw a star cluster toward us at 2 million miles per hour
A little over 50 million light years away is the elliptical galaxy known as M87. This celestial object has been of interest to astronomers over […]
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Comet Lovejoy: The Sungrazer That Survived
Comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy is a comet on its way to the outer solar system. It survived a close brush with the sun in December […]
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The Night Sky May 2014
This page, updated monthly, will let you know some of the things that you can look out for in the night sky. It lists the […]
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Brazilian fisherman finds satellite launch debris in Amazon
A fisherman in Brazil’s Amazon region has found a large piece of debris from a European space launch.The man said he found the metal object […]
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Halos and arcs: Optical effects photographed by Göran Strand.
It’s a little bit weird to think that sometimes, when you look at the sky, it looks like it’s looking back. view more at Halos […]
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Could our search for alien life trigger the end of humanity?
Last week, scientists announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, a planet 492 light years away in the Cygnus constellation.Kepler-186f is special because it marks the first […]
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Supermassive black holes dance in a non-active galaxy
An international research team has discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another in a quiescent galaxy. read more: Supermassive […]
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Rare sighting of comet captured on camera above Gloucester
Tuffley astronomer John Fletcher captured a spectacular picture of a comet above Gloucester.Mr Fletcher, who runs the Mount Tuffley Observatory photographed the C/2012 K1 Panstarrs […]
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Get Ready for the Lyrid Meteor Shower: Our Complete Guide for 2014
The month of April doesn’t only see showers that bring May flowers: it also brings the first dependable meteor shower of the season. We’re talking […]
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Meteor-like Object Explodes Over Russia
Each day the Earth gets pelted with hundreds of tons of material from space. Most of this ranges from the size of a grain of […]
