A dwarf planet is shining two bright lights at a NASA spacecraft right now, and our smartest scientists are unsure what they are. As bizarre as that sentence sounds, that’s the situation with Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officially designated as a dwarf planet (the same category […]
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Unusual Super Comet Heading Towards Earth, Leaving Scientists Baffled
An unusual comet that some call a ‘super comet, due to it passing by the Sun unscathed, is heading towards the Earth and it will be unlike any comet we’ve ever seen before according to scientists. The Daily Mail report: Nasa and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also called SOHO, spotted the […]
Fireball & sonic boom witnessed from Florida to South Carolina
Source URL Heat map of fireball sightings (Image from AMSmeteors.org) Residents of the Sunshine State say they spotted a massive fireball soar through the Florida sky over the weekend, and similar reports have since surfaced from as far away as South Carolina. According to the American Meteorological Society (AMS), 189 people have filed reports since late […]
‘Cloud’ over Mars leaves scientists baffled
Observations of a mysterious plume-like feature (marked with yellow arrow) at the limb of the Red Planet on 20 March 2012. The observation was made by astronomer W. Jaeschke. The image is shown with the north pole towards the bottom and the south pole to the top. Credit: Copyright W. Jaeschke On two […]
Today we’re thrilled to show you the winning design for the NSS Enterprise…a REAL spaceship that we’ll be building and sending to orbit!
Today we’re thrilled to show you the winning design for the NSS Enterprise…a REAL spaceship that we’ll be building and sending to orbit! The NSS Enterprise–an 8-foot, functioning, unmanned spacecraft– will be sent to space via a commercial launch vehicle. She’ll even have working propulsion, avionics, and a heat protection for re-entry. The winning design […]
Asteroid 2004 BL86 has a moon!
Asteroid 2004 BL86 has a moon ! #deepastronomy #asteroid #nasa This image unveiled by astronomer Lance Benner (sreenshot quality) has been taken with the Goldstone 70-meter-radio telescope few hours ago. It shows clearly that asteroid 2004 BL86 is in fact composed of a double asteroid ! Stay tuned, hope we will get sharper […]
An asteroid the size five football fields is approaching Earth and is expected to pass by on Monday
Reuters / NASA An asteroid the size five football fields is approaching Earth and is expected to pass by on Monday. It will be visible through strong binoculars – definitely worth getting; the next time such an asteroid could be this close again will be in 2027. At the closest point to the Earth, asteroid […]
SpaceX Didn’t Publish Video of their Landing Attempt Today, But I Did
“SpaceX Didn’t Publish Video of their Landing Attempt Today, But I Did” “According to SpaceX they weren’t able to get any useable video of their crash landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 this morning, but I was able to get video of the initial braking burn as the first stage fell back […]
Something Crashed on Mars Recently… VIDEO
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Google Sky Mystery – The Missing Section
Comparing my images to the DSS scans of the SERC-J sky survey film lead to an interesting discovery. To follow up on what I found I took a trip last month to the University of Michigan, where I viewed an original copy of the film negative missing from Google Sky. To my knowledge no one, […]