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Many UFO Sightings Reported in Western Pennsylvania, US Associated Press, Wire Service Content | 4, 2019, at 12:51 p.m. While the Kecksburg UFO sighting has become a quaint part of local lore, more recent reports of unexplained aerial phenomena are getting serious attention from Congress, the...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 6 August 2019 Mimas in Saturnlight Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Mimas lies in near darkness alongside a dramatic sunlit crescent. The mosaic was captured near...

Albireo, beloved double star Bruce McClure in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | BRIGHTEST STARS | August 4, 2019 Albireo is known best for the striking color contrast between its two stars – the brighter gold star and the dimmer blue star. Albireo, one star blue and the other golden. Photo via Tom...

No, an Asteroid Won't Hit Earth on Sept. 9 and Here's Why Passant Rabie, Science & Technology | 2 August 2019 That's one less asteroid for Earth to worry about. The area in the sky where astronomers would have spotted the asteroid 2006 QV89 if it was on a collision course with Earth, with...

An asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building is passing by Earth next week. Here's why you shouldn't be worried Leah Asmelash and David G Allan, CNN | Updated 6:22 PM ET, Thu August 1, 2019 (CNN) Yes, there's an asteroid bigger than the Empire State building passing by Earth. No, it's...

Going out with a bang, not a whimper, Eta Carinae continues to amaze Staff, Astronomy Now | 30 July 2019 A new image of Eta Carinae by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the unexpected ultraviolet glow of magnesium embedded in warm gas (shown in blue). The observations may shed light on the...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 31 July 2019 IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Pham To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star...

Suspected meteorite crashes into rice field in India Manveena Suri and Helen Regan, CNN, Updated 3:06 AM ET, Fri July 26, 2019 Villagers and farmers pose around the crater of a suspected meteorite that crashed in a field at Mahadeva village in the Indian eastern state of Bihar. (CNN) A...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 28 July 2019 The North America Nebula in Infrared Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, JPL-Caltech, L. Rebull (SSC, Caltech); Optical Rollover: DSS, D. De Martin The North America Nebula can do what most North Americans cannot -- form stars...

A “city-killing” asteroid just zipped by Earth. Why didn’t we see it coming? Kelsey Piper, Vox | Jul 26, 2019, 2:40pm EDT NASA tracks big asteroids. Small ones — which can still do damage — are harder to spot. An asteroid zipped by Earth yesterday could have done substantial damage if it’d...

Dark Matter Hasn't Killed Anybody Yet — and That Tells Us Something Mike Wall, Science & Astronomy | 26 July 2019 The lack of dark-matter wounds can help researchers home in on the mysterious stuff's nature. A ghostly ring of dark matter floating in the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652, one of...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 25 July 2019 Cygnus Skyscape Image Credit & Copyright: Alistair Symon In brush strokes of interstellar dust and glowing hydrogen gas, this beautiful skyscape is painted across the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy near the northern end of the Great...

UH Astronomy Director envisions search for life outside of Earth with TMT project KHON2, Hawaii | 24 July 2019 As the debate over the Thirty Meter Telescope project rolls on, many University of Hawaii's Astronomers still dream of the possibilities of their research if the project were to be...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 23 July 2019 M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Daniel Nobre Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass...

Astronomers decode Milky Way's violent birth Phys.org | JULY 22, 2019 The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion stars and its centre contains an intense radio source believed to be the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. The Milky Way gobbled up a galaxy one quarter of its mass 10...

'Alien in my backyard:' The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen Originally Reported in Orlando Sentinel Commentary by Kathleen Marden, MUFON Director of Experiencer Research Long past its peak during the Cold War era, the UFO believer community lives on in meeting...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 20 July 2019 Apollo 11 Landing Panorama Image Credit: Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, NASA Have you seen a panorama from another world lately? Assembled from high-resolution scans of the original film frames, this one sweeps across the magnificent...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 20 July 2019 Tranquility Base Panorama Image Credit: Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, NASA On July 20, 1969 the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle safely touched down on the Moon. It landed near the southwestern corner of the Moon's Mare Tranquillitatis at...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 18 July 2019 Apollo 11: Descent to the Moon Video Credit: NASA, Apollo Flight Journal Compilation & Copyright: W. David Woods It had never been done before. But with the words "You're Go for landing", 50 years ago this past Saturday, Apollo 11...

Join space scientists marking Apollo anniversary Posted by EarthSky in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | July 17, 2019 Join online as leading space scientists discuss the legacy of Apollo 11 during the mission’s 50th anniversary this week. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission...