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NASA creates stunning new black hole visualization Deborah Byrd in SPACE | September 27, 2019 For decades, astronomical theorists have told us that a black hole’s powerful gravity would warp the space around it. This new visualization from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is the best yet at...

How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times | 26 September 2019 Two years after Mr. DeLonge left the band, he found a new life trying to make sense of outer space. “For some reason I just thought science fiction was just fascinating,” Mr...

Solar Super-Storm Hit Earth 2,610 Years Ago Enrico de Lazaro, Sci-News Evidence of an enormous solar storm that struck the Earth around 2,610 years ago has been found in ice cores from Greenland. An artist’s illustration of events on the Sun changing the conditions in near-Earth space...

Venus to take center stage in October 2020 observation campaign EarthSky in SPACE | September 25, 2019 Launched in 2018, the BepiColombo mission will have the first of its 2 encounters with Venus – while on its way to Mercury – in October 2020. Coordinated observations at that time will involve...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 24 September 2019 Sand Dunes Thawing on Mars Image Credit & License: ESA, Roscosmos, CaSSIS What are these strange shapes on Mars? Defrosting sand dunes. As spring dawned on the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, dunes of sand near the pole, as...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 22 September 2019 Too Close to a Black Hole Credit & Copyright: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? Above are two computer generated images highlighting how strange things would look. On the left is a...

An astronomer contemplates the equinox Guy Ottewell in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | HUMAN WORLD | September 21, 2019 You can think of the equinox not as a whole day, but as a point along Earth’s orbit. Want to understand that better? Guy Ottewell offers some insights. This view is about 7 hours...

No, asteroid 2007 FT3 won’t hit Earth in October Eddie Irizarry and Deborah Byrd in SPACE | September 18, 2019 Why is the internet so chock-full of stories about asteroids on a collision course with Earth? At this rate, we should have been obliterated many times over already. Here comes the...

Boomerang-Shaped UFO Reported Over Texas Roger Marsh, MUFON | 28 July 2019 A Texas witness at Porter reported that a boomerang-shaped object with no lights moved over his workplace, according to testimony in Case 94960. The witness was at work and getting ready to leave at 4:20 a.m. on...

The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal Scottie Andrew, CNN | Updated 2:11 PM ET, Wed September 18, 2019 The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not...

Mystery green blob appears and disappears in distant galaxy Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | September 16, 2019 hat is ULX-4 – a mystery green blob of X-ray light that appeared in the Fireworks Galaxy – and then soon disappeared again? A black hole or neutron star are 2 possibilities. This...

By the way, a monster asteroid (2000 QW7) zipped safely by us yesterday. It was roughly the size of a huge skyscraper (over 2300 feet in diameter) and was traveling at 14,000 mph. It came within 3 million miles of us, which is a stone's throw in astronomical terms.

Milky Way’s black hole appears to be getting hungrier EarthSky in SPACE | September 15, 2019 “We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole. It’s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don’t know what is driving this big...

Hubble’s Brand New Image of Saturn NASA Goddard | Published on Sep 12, 2019 This new portrait of Saturn, released on Thursday, September 12, was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope. ________________________________ Click the CC icon on the bottom right of the Youtube frame to get rid of...

Astronomer spots possible new interstellar visitor in our solar system Ashley Strickland, CNN | September 12, 2019 Astronomers believe Comet C/2019 Q4 could be the second known interstellar visitor to our solar system. It was first spotted on August 30 and imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii...

Scientists detect towering balloon-like structure near Milky Way’s center Deborah Byrd in SPACE | September 11, 2019 It’s a huge bipolar gas structure, hundreds of light-years across, centered on our galaxy’s center and near the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. Astronomers found it...

Shedding light on black holes EarthSky in Space | September 11, 2019 How much of what think you know about black holes is true, and how much is myth? To separate fact from fiction, check out this 4-minute video from NASA. ____________________________ Always fun to get more lowdown on...

India still trying to contact its lost Moon lander Hailey Rose McLaughlin, Astronomy | Published: Monday, September 9, 2019 The Virkam lander lost contact with Earth just as it neared touchdown on the moon This was the view on computer screens at the Chandrayaan-2 mission control center...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 8 September 2019 Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter Video Credit & License: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstadt; Music: Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven) Here comes Jupiter! NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day...

Will the Webb telescope be able to detect life signs at nearby exoplanets? Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | September 2, 2019 The Webb Telescope is Hubble’s successor, due to launch in 2021. A new study says it’ll be powerful enough to search for life signatures in the atmospheres of the 7...