An extremely bright meteor lit up the night sky over Japan on Tuesday night. It could be seen from hundreds of miles away. The colossal fireball blazed across the skies of western Japan. The incredible sight was captured on dash cams and surveillance cameras on Kyushu, the southwesternmost main island in Japan, and Osaka, a major city on Japan’s largest …
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Brilliant Meteor Illuminates Sakurajima Volcano and Kagoshima City, Japan 🇯🇵 (19.08.2025) pic.twitter.com/NpAJaNMZ9eAugust 19, 2025 A fireball briefly turned night to day in the skies over Japan on the night of Aug. 19, before appearing to fragment over the Pacific Ocean. The fireball flared to life at 11:08 p.m. local time on Aug. 19, appearing to streak southwest through the skies …
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A huge fireball dashed across the skies of western Japan, shocking residents and dazzling stargazers, though experts said it was a natural phenomenon and not an alien invasion. Videos and photos emerged online of the extremely bright ball of light visible for hundreds of miles shortly after 11.00pm local time (1400 BST) on Tuesday. “A white light I had never …
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At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found themselves looking at an entirely unexpected sight. “Everything else disappeared, even the bright central black hole, and only this little dot remained,” Elena Shablovinskaia, an astrophysicist at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, …
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In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have stumbled upon a powerful and mysterious astrophysical object in the NGC 4945 galaxy, which lies about 11 million light-years away from Earth. This enigmatic object, dubbed “Punctum,” has sparked a flurry of curiosity and debate among astronomers. First identified by a team led by Elena Shablovinskaia of the Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos at the …
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Topline Sky-watchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on Tuesday, Aug. 12, will have glimpsed the first act of the six-planet “planet parade” that’s building in the eastern sky before sunrise. Best seen about an hour before sunrise, bright planets Venus and Jupiter — now beginning to draw away from each other — will dominate in the east while Saturn brightens …
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Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn’t finished with delivering meteor showers to feast your eyes on. Last week saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year won’t hit its peak until next week. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you’re far enough away from light …
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