A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday’s incident, and the 113 passengers on flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to leave the plane normally after a delay, United officials said in a statement. Runway collisions like these could …
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Comet Lemmon’s ghostly tail haunts the skies above England (photo)
Award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury has captured a stunning view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) shining in the sky over Somerset in the U.K. ahead of its close approach to Earth on Oct. 21. Dury revealed Comet Lemmon‘s bright green coma and long diffuse tail streaking through the eventing sky in exquisite detail as day gave way to night above the …
Read More »Solar wind tears a chunk from Comet Lemmon’s tail in incredible new astrophotography images
Comet Lemmon’s nucleus and tail pictured against the distant starfield beyond. (Image credit: Brennan Gilmore) Astrophotographer Brennan Gilmore has captured spectacular views of the solar wind stripping a vast section from C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)’s tail, as the icy wanderer continues to brighten ahead of its close approach to Earth on Oct. 21. Top Camera Pick: Nikon Z9 (Image credit: Andy …
Read More »Unique new bat species has a strange hairless area and a tail as long as its body
A new bat from the Western Himalayas has been described, and it carries two striking traits, a bare ring around each eye and a tail that outstretches its body. The species is called the Himalayan long tailed myotis, Myotis himalaicus. This bat did not simply appear out of thin air. Field teams first caught lookalikes years ago, then circled back …
Read More »Images Show Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Is Now Growing a Tail : ScienceAlert
The latest images of comet 3I/ATLAS are in, delivering a glorious view of the interstellar object’s burgeoning tail, courtesy of NOIRLab’s powerful Gemini South telescope. This bodes well for astronomers keen to see the emergence of long, well-defined cometary tails as 3I/ATLAS shimmies towards its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion – a rendezvous calculated to occur around 29 …
Read More »New photos reveal growing ‘tail’ of alien comet 3I/ATLAS at it barrels closer to Earth and the sun
A stunning new telescope image has revealed the growing tail of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The luminous limb is starting to take shape as the icy interloper zooms ever closer to the sun on its one-way trip through the solar system. 3I/ATLAS is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet that was first spotted in early July and is zooming toward …
Read More »Scientists Discover 99-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail In Myanmar Amber
In a stunning twist that rewrites the narrative of fossil preservation, a fragment of amber once thought to hold a plant was revealed to contain the feathered tail of a young dinosaur, dating back 99 million years. As detailed in a 2016 peer-reviewed study published in Current Biology, this remarkable find marks the first-ever discovery of non-avian dinosaur material preserved …
Read More »Tail of comet that’s visiting from another star is growing, new telescope image shows
A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the International Gemini Observatory in Chile during a public outreach event allowing students to work with astronomers. The comet is only the third-known interstellar object …
Read More »Telescope reveals a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile late last month are the most detailed yet of the recently discovered comet. They show a wide coma of dust and gas around the ice ball as it speeds toward …
Read More »The interstellar comet known as 3I-Atlas has a growing tail
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile late last month are the most detailed yet of the recently discovered comet. They show a wide coma of dust and gas around the ice ball as it speeds …
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