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String of lights seen in sky near Charlotte sparks UFO debate. What was it? Mark Price, Charlotte Observer | January 27, 2021 01:00 PM String of lights floating in night sky east of Charlotte ignited debate on social media. ALISA HOMEWOOD PHOTO Multiple people have reported seeing an odd...

Cold Moon rising over Nubble lighthouse in Maine. EarthSky Community Photos The lighthouse is lit with Festive lights and the Moon as a Backdrop. ___________________________________ This was too beautiful to pass up! - ilan

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Jupiter and Saturn Embrace in Solstice Conjunction Bob King, Sky & Telescope | 14 December 2020 Jupiter and Saturn fashion the Great Conjunction of 2020 when they pair up on December 21st, the winter solstice. That evening they’ll be closest in nearly 400 years. While we're all trying...

On the hunt for a missing giant black hole Chandra X-ray Center, Phys Org | 17 December 2020 The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence...

Young moon, Jupiter, Saturn glorious December 15 to 18! Bruce McClure in TONIGHT | December 15, 2020 You might – or might not – catch the young whisker-thin moon below the planets Jupiter and Saturn on December 15, 2020. You’ll surely catch the moon and these glorious planets in the west...

Government Photo Shows ‘Motionless, Cube-Shaped’ UFO Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics | 8 December 2020 The U.S. Intelligence Community has known about the mysterious object for two years. What could it be? An unclassified image that’s reportedly been circulated among U.S. intelligence...

Watch: 25 years of the sun Eleanor Imster in SPACE | December 10, 2020 This video, merging more than 2 decades of footage from SOHO cameras, captures thousands of sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections breaking out from the sun. On December 2, 2020, ESA released this cool video montage...

Earth faster, closer to Milky Way black hole, than previously thought Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | December 5, 2020 A new survey of our galaxy by astronomers with VERA in Japan has shown that Earth is both moving faster and is closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy...

Best map of Milky Way reveals a billion stars in motion Davide Castelvicchi | Nature News, 3 December 2020 Data haul from Gaia space observatory offers a glimpse of what Earth’s night sky will look like for 1.6 million years to come. The best available map of the Milky Way just got better...

Is Earth’s new mini-moon a 60s-era rocket booster? Eddie Irizarry and Deborah Byrd in SPACE | November 23, 2020 A mysterious object discovered in September has now become a new mini-moon for Earth. It appears to be a lost-and-found 60s-era rocket from the Surveyor 2 moon mission, launched from...

The 1st intentional radio message to space was sent via Arecibo Deborah Byrd in SPACE | November 19, 2020 Iconic Arecibo telescope is now slated for decommissioning. But its multi-faceted legacy will live on. In 1974, for example, Arecibo sent earthlings’ first intentional message to the...

This asteroid just skimmed Earth’s atmosphere Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | November 16, 2020 The asteroid – 2020 VT4 – is estimated to be between 16 and 36 feet (5-11 meters). It skimmed the top of our atmosphere on Friday, November 13, 2020. Astronomers spotted it one day later. Astronomers...

Where to watch the historic SpaceX Crew-1 launch this Saturday Lia Rovira in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | November 12, 2020 SpaceX is targeting Saturday, November 14, 2020, for the historic launch of Crew-1, the 1st operational, contracted mission to launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program...

What is a supernova? Andy Briggs in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | November 12, 2020 A supernova is a star’s colossal explosion at the end of its life, potentially outshining its entire galaxy. Read about the causes and types of supernovae here. A supernova is the name given to the cataclysmic...

Infamous asteroid Apophis is accelerating Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | November 3, 2020 Astronomers in Hawaii have detected the Yarkovsky effect – a minuscule push imparted by sunlight – for asteroid Apophis. The effect is particularly important for Apophis, because it relates to the possibility...

Smile, wave: Some exoplanets may be able to see us, too Cornell University | 21 October 2020 Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute; and Joshua Pepper, associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, have...

Astronomers see a star ‘spaghettified’ by a black hole Deborah Byrd in SPACE | October 13, 2020 Astronomers have spotted a rare blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The phenomenon – known as a tidal disruption event – is the closest such flare recorded to...

Aaron Rodgers shares his UFO sighting experience on the Pat McAfee Show Julia Marshall, WTMJ-TV Milwaukee | Sep 30, 2020 GREEN BAY — Have you ever seen a UFO? Well, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has and he shared his experience on the Pat McAfee Show Tuesday. That's right, 15...

'Giant impact' theory of moon's formation gets another boost Elizabeth Howell, SPACE | 24 September 2020 Scientists have found yet more differences between Earth and moon rocks. Earth's moon is thought to have formed when a Mars-sized object, called Theia, slammed into the early Earth 4.4...