The ‘Christmas Comet’ Passes by for the Holidays
Every 5.4 years, the comet 46P/Wirtanen orbits the Sun, swinging through Earth’s skies on its way. This year, its visit is in December, and we’re going to be able to see it – in fact, it’s visible in the sky now if you have binoculars or a telescope. Usually, 46P/Wirtanen is too far away for us to see, so this is a … Continue reading
Astronomers Find Ghost Galaxy Lurking on Edge of Milky Way
But is it really a galaxy? via Sputniknews: A team of astronomers using the Gaia satellite have found a “ghost” galaxy haunting the outer edges of our own. The bizarre object is three times bigger but 10,000 times fainter than the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which also orbits the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy identified as Antlia 2 evaded scientists … Continue reading
“Something is Coming to Earth From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away” – Linda Moulton Howe
A must watch lecture by Linda Moulton Howe regarding Fast Radio Burst signals and the fantastic proposal about what could be the cause! What has been making very powerful and rapid signals in the past ten years from 2.5 billion light-years from Earth? Linda Moulton Howe explains that the first recorded fast radio burst was in 2007 by the Parkes … Continue reading
Another Alien Megastructure? Astronomers Seek Source of Old Star’s Strange Behavior
An old star in the inner Milky Way has sparked a celestial investigation after baffled astronomers noted that something seems to be blocking it from our sight. Possible explanations range from alien megastructures to space dust. The strange flickering of star VVV-WIT-07 has been confounding scientists since it was first spotted by a team of astronomers in 2012. The researchers … Continue reading
A Star in Our Galaxy is on the Brink of a Massive Gamma-ray Supernova Explosion
Just as a meteor or comet strike is inevitable, so too is an event such as this… it is just a matter of time! via RT: A star 8,000 light years from Earth is on the verge of a huge supernova explosion, which could produce the Milky Way’s first gamma-ray explosion, a dangerous and extremely energetic event. Australian scientists at … Continue reading
Second-Closest Super Earth Discovered
Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a ‘super-Earth’ around a star that is a mere six light years away. Believed to be approximately three times the mass of our own planet, this icy extrasolar world orbits Barnard’s star at around the same distance as Mercury orbits the Sun in our own solar system. The discovery is particularly important because planets … Continue reading
Dark Matter ‘Hurricane’ to Batter Earth for the Next Million Years
Yowsa! RT As California burns, the Gulf Coast rebuilds and Indonesia is still reeling from a tsunami, what else could possibly go wrong? Well, apparently a ‘hurricane’ of dark matter travelling at 500 kilometers per second (310 mps). Scientists studying the nature of gravity and the movement of stars and planets discovered that the space between galaxies contains something else … Continue reading
Astronomers Discover Black Hole that ‘May be Spinning Space Itself’
Astronomers using India’s astronomy satellite have found a black hole which is spinning so fast it could be spinning space itself. While the idea is surreal, it’s based on Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity – and understanding the ‘spin’ of the black hole could be key to grasping how galaxies formed. Astronomers found that the black hole the binary star … Continue reading
Strange Dust Cloud Discovered Orbiting Earth
For decades the existence of weird space clouds in Earth’s orbit has been speculative and controversial, but new research looks to validate their strange reality after all. The Kordylewski clouds – two mysterious swarms of dust trapped between the competing gravitational fields of Earth and the Moon – were first hypothesised back in the 1950s, although evidence for their existence was faint.For … Continue reading
‘Skull Asteroid’ Returns But Not Before a Visit by a Trio of Space Rocks
Space rocks a plenty! via Sputniknews: The US space administration NASA has announced that three asteroids will be skipping past Earth this weekend, the closest of which will come inside the moon’s orbit. In their wake is the perennial “skull” asteroid, last seen in our vicinity on Halloween three years ago. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the first and largest … Continue reading
