Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann via X In October, a newly discovered comet will streak so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks with the naked eye — a spectacle that won’t happen again for more than a millennium, according to Space.com, so it’s worth trying to spot it. This icy interstellar visitor, …
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The Orionid meteor shower has arrived! Look up on the nights between Oct. 2 to Nov. 12 to see tiny shards of Halley’s comet strike Earth’s atmosphere to create spectacular shooting stars and fireballs in the night sky. Orionid meteors are known for leaving glowing trains, or trails, in the night sky and can be spotted each year as Earth …
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The newest comet to create a buzz among sky watchers was spotted recently, and it will be coming closer to Earth in October – possibly giving us a better look at this once-in-a-lifetime visitor from the outer reaches of our solar system. The comet’s official name is C/2025 R2 (SWAN). Early photos show it has a very long gas tail, …
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A newly discovered comet will soon be gracing our evening sky. On Sept. 10, Vladimir Bezugly of Dnipro, Ukraine was examining online images of a low-resolution public website showing images obtained during Sept. 5-9 with the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) camera on the Solar and Heliospheric Observer (SOHO) spacecraft. That’s when he discovered a moving object, resembling a bright blob, …
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Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the latest visitor to the Solar System may be turning green. That’s not all that strange for a comet. Many Solar System comets give off a green glow when they heat up enough to emit vapor. However, for 3I/ATLAS, it might be quite …
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Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the latest visitor to the Solar System may be turning green. That’s not all that strange for a comet. Many Solar System comets give off a green glow when they heat up enough to emit vapor. However, for 3I/ATLAS, it might be quite …
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A long-tailed comet has been spotted close to the sun, and some astronomers are predicting it could be seen with the naked eye in mid-October — just as another comet is forecast to do the same. It could mean two bright comets will be visible in the night sky at the same time, on the peak night of a meteor …
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Scientists have unearthed evidence of a catastrophic event in the United States around 12,800 years ago that wiped out a thriving civilisation. According to the researchers, an airburst or an impact of some kind, such as from a meteor, likely occurred, devastating North America, triggering a chain reaction that led to an extinction-level event. Source link
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Astronomers have a new theory about planetary formation, and it revolves around one mysterious concept: interstellar visitors. No, not little green men, but rather deep-space wanderers like the peculiar comet 3I/ATLAS discovered this summer. A new study presented by professor Susanne Pfalzner of Forschungszentrum Jülich at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division of Planetary Sciences …
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The bright light at the center is the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (Credit: noirlab.edu/ CC-BY-SA-4.0/ Wikipedia Commons) A rare comet from another star system is speeding through our solar system, giving astronomers a unique chance to study an interstellar visitor up close. Named 3I/ATLAS, it is only the third such object ever confirmed. It joins Oumuamua, which appeared in 2017, and …
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