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'They Are Already Here' starts with a total solar eclipse and a UFO. (Book Excerpt) Sarah Scoles, SPACE | 9 March 2020 "They Are Already Here," by Sarah Scoles. (Image: © Pegasus Books) I've only seen a UFO once. And only for a second: It quickly turned into an IFO—an identified flying...

See Moon, Spica before bedtime March 11 Bruce McClure in TONIGHT | March 11, 2020 This evening – March 11, 2020 – look eastward before going to bed and you just might catch the bright waning gibbous moon and the star Spica over the horizon. First look for the moon and that nearby bright star...

Happy birthday, Yuri Gagarin Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | March 9, 2020 Yuri Gagarin was a Russian pilot who became the first human to travel to space, in 1961. His story … plus links to a Yuri’s Night celebration near you. “Let’s go! (Poyekhali!)” Image via ESA. March 9, 1934. Yuri...

And now, a word from Juno at Jupiter Deborah Byrd and Eleanor Imster in SPACE | TODAY'S IMAGE | March 6, 2020 Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016. It’s in a 53-day orbit around the planet. Close sweeps past the planet are called “perijoves” (peri means “near”). Here are some spectacular images from...

Astronomers detect biggest explosion in history of universe Eleanor Imster in SPACE | March 1, 2020 Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang. Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster say they’ve got a new...

NASA Captures Footage Of UFO On Space Station Live Feed Dave Basner, KFI AM640 - Feb 26, 2020 If you are a science nerd who is ever bored, NASA has a YouTube channel filled with videos that might tickle your fancy, and among them is a live feed from the International Space Station. Recently...

New image of Earth’s new mini-moon Deborah Byrd in SPACE | February 27, 2020 Late in the day on Thursday, astronomers released this new image of 2020 CD3, a small object now confirmed to be orbiting Earth temporarily. It was apparently captured into Earth orbit 3 years ago. Its fate, here...

British 'X-Files' of UFO sightings is going public Mindy Weisberger - Senior Writer, Live Science | 21 Feb 2020 The U.K.'s Ministry of Defense will publish secret UFO reports for the first time. The U.K.'s official government investigation of UFOs can be traced to a group formed in 1950...

Watch for the moon and Venus this week Bruce McClure in TONIGHT | February 24, 2020 The coming evenings – February 24, 25, 26 and 27, 2020 – present a grand time to go young moon hunting. The moon was new on February 23. On that date, the moon was passing more or less between the Earth and...

What is dark matter? Andy Briggs in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE | February 23, 2020 Dark matter doesn’t emit light. It can’t be directly observed with any of the existing tools of astronomers. Yet astrophysicists believe it and dark energy make up most of the mass of the cosmos. What dark...

Photos: When the moon hid Mars Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | TODAY'S IMAGE | February 19, 2020 The moon will cover Mars 5 times in 2020, but the occultation on February 18, 2020, was the only one accessible to viewers in much of North and Central America. Photos from the EarthSky...

VIDEO: Okanagan couple claim to see UFO near Naramata JESSE DAY, Lake County Calendar | Feb. 15, 2020 2:00 p.m.LOCAL Flashing, flying object over Okanagan Lake spotted in Naramata and caught on video A second UFO sighting has been reported in the Okanagan this week. Two days ago, the...

Massive asteroid will swing by Earth after Valentine's Day Ashley Strickland, CNN | 2:20 PM ET, Fri February 14, 2020 (CNN) Not long after Valentine's Day ends, a massive asteroid estimated to be between 1,443 feet and 3,248 feet long will pass by Earth around 6:05 a.m. ET on Saturday. Based...

What is a neutron star? Andy Briggs in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE | February 12, 2020 Neutron stars are born in supernova explosions. They are stars with a couple of times our sun’s mass, squeezed into a sphere the size of an earthly city. Artist’s concept of a neutron star. The star’s...

Congratulations, Christina Koch! Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | TODAY'S IMAGE | February 6, 2020 Astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth after a record-breaking stay of 328 days aboard the International Space Station. She now holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 30 January 2020 Two Clusters and a Comet Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST) This lovely starfield spans some four full moons (about 2 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. In telescopic...

Are the aliens us? UFOs may be piloted by time-traveling humans, book argues Leonard David, Space | 22 January 2020 Close encounters with our future selves? (Image: © thortful.com) The great distances covered by visiting "aliens" may be ones of time rather than space, a recent book...

Ancient stardust in meteorite is older than Earth Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | January 20, 2020 Grains of stardust – particles left behind by star explosions – in an Australian meteorite are now the oldest known material on Earth. A new study suggests this stardust came to be long before our...

Astronomers date an ancient Milky Way collision Deborah Byrd in SPACE | January 20, 2020 The Gaia-Enceladus dwarf galaxy slammed into our Milky Way 11.5 billion years ago. It added a mass of 50 billion suns to the Milky Way. Grand names and big numbers! Now new knowledge of this collision comes...

Crab Nebula: Visualize an exploded star Eleanor Imster and Deborah Byrd in SPACE | January 14, 2020 A new NASA video combines visible, infrared, and X-ray view of the famous Crab Nebula, a star that exploded into view in our sky 1,000 years ago. NASA released the video above on January 5...