A UFO in the form of a ball of light slowly traversed the night sky over the western Russian city of Lipetsk before exploding in mid-air. The mystery object’s flight was caught on camera by a number of eyewitnesses.
Pretty good for not having a brain.
Did ancient priests fool visitors to a sulfurous subterranean stream that they had crossed the River Styx and entered Hades?
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside the Solar System — the ageing red giant π1 Gruis. This remarkable new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that make up the surface of this huge star, which has 350 times the diameter of the Sun. Each cell covers more than a quarter of the star’s diameter and measures about 120 million kilometres across. These new results are being published this week in the journal Nature.
Move over Indiana Jones; it’s all about robots here in 2017!
Each year, Science’s editors and writers highlight a top research achievement as their Breakthrough of the Year.
Classified as “potentially hazardous”, the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon has a diameter of about six kilometres — roughly one kilometre larger than previous estimates, new radar images obtained by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suggest.
This footage was send in by a couple of fans of the channel that were on a road trip to Chicago. During their road trip they suddenly saw a strange object in the sky. They grabbed out their camera and captured some great UFO footage.
