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Mysterious light over upstate New York was tail of a Vulcan rocket launch  Times Union Light in the sky surprised people across Philadelphia region on Tuesday night. Here’s what it was  6abc Philadelphia Strange object seen in the sky Tuesday night in the Philly region  NBC10 Philadelphia Alien ship? Satellite? Strange glowing light spotted in skies above Massachusetts  WCVB What was that? Spiral light …

Zoom image will be displayed Intensity maps of 3I/ATLAS from stacking datasets collected on the 4th (top row) and 29th (bottom row) of July 2025, showing no visible cometary tail. The arrows point the directions to the Sun, north, east, and the negative velocity vector of the comet as seen on the plane of the sky. (Image credit: Santana-Ros et …

Scientists have concluded that peacocks’ tail feathers are capable of emitting narrow beams of light. A team highlighted that the colored tail feathers include tiny reflective structures that can amplify light into a laser beam. Researchers from Florida Polytechnic University and Youngstown State University explored such structures that may emit a very different signature glow after applying a special dye …

The mysterious “interstellar visitor” that was recently spotted whizzing through the solar system may be around 3 billion years older than our cosmic neighborhood, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the alien interloper would be the oldest comet ever seen from Earth. And, if it’s made of what researchers think it is, it may also grow a spectacularly long tail …