FAQs
What Are Sun Dogs and How Are They Caused?
The image above shows a pair of bright sundogs as seen from the city of Fargo in North Dakota. Also visible here are sections of the arcs passing through each sundog. These are known as […]
Phenomena
Astronomy History
SN 1006: The Brightest Supernova in Recorded History
The image above shows the extent of the supernova remnant designated SN 1006. In this X-ray image taken with the Chandra space telescope, multi-million-degree gas is shown as red and green, while extremely high-energy electrons […]
Black Holes
Tens of Thousands of Black Holes Found in the Milky Way
The image above shows the Milky Way stretching across the sky, with Sgr A*, the area of space that contains both the center of the galaxy and a super massive black hole, directly above the […]
Astronomy History
The Great Leonids Meteor Storm of 1833
The image above shows a depiction of the Great Leonids Meteor Storm that occurred on November 13th, 1833 in which more than 72,000 meteors per hour fell to Earth, and which according to one observer […]
Black Holes
Cache of Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Discovered
Stellar black holes formed after a massive star gravitational collapses have masses ranging from between 5 and 100 times that of the Sun. Supermassive black holes (SMBH) that lurk at the centre of galaxies, on […]
Black Holes
Event Horizon Telescope to Glimpse Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have now brought the Event Horizon Telescope online, and turned it towards the supermassive black hole situated at the center of our Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The 10-day project will run […]
News
Giant Fireball Explodes Over American Midwest
In the early hours of Monday morning, a huge fireball was seen streaking across the sky of the American Midwest before exploding with a sonic boom that shook residential homes in the Green Bay area […]
News
CIA Declassified Files Include UFO Sightings
The CIA has finally caved in to demands made by freedom of information campaigners, including a lawsuit brought against it by MuckRock, and released around 930,000 declassified files. These include those related to UFO sightings […]
Black Holes
Quasar Found 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun
An international team of astronomers have discovered a huge quasar 420 trillion times brighter than our sun around 12.8 billion light years away from Earth, placing its formation around 875 million years after the big […]
FAQs
Common Explanations For Mistaken UFO Sightings
If you take UFO sightings seriously then you would certainly have heard of the Hessdalen lights. These bizarre light phenomena have been seen in Norway’s Hessdalen valley since at least the 1940’s. Over the ensuing […]