An amateur astronomer accidentally caught an exploding star on camera—and it gets better0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
He was excited to test his new camera, but he also captured something totally unique.
He was excited to test his new camera, but he also captured something totally unique.
NASA’s Juno orbiter successfully made its eleventh flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018.
As much as we tend to panic over the idea of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, one possible explanation for life on Earth is that an asteroid brought it here in the first place.
When people talk about using artificial intelligence to solve humanity’s biggest problems, there are few problems bigger than our planet’s survival. That is something a new algorithm called “Deflector Selector” is designed to aid with — by weighing up different possible solutions to deal with the possibility of a deadly asteroid heading in Earth’s direction.
The clip has been shared widely on YouTube after footage shows two objects appear on screen in the background before veering off in a different direction.
Like a teenage diary you can’t throw away, Mars might carry a reminder of its difficult formative years in its tiny moons. A paper published by the Royal Astronomical Society suggests the strangely small Phobos and Deimos could result from a traumatic slingshot rejection of the Red planet from the inner solar system early in its formation, stunting its own growth and removing debris to form a larger moon like our own.
The Black Vault is proud to host files from the “Desks of Project Blue Book” — courtesy of Investigator Rob Mercer. Many of these files are not available anywhere else, and are here due to the research efforts of Mr. Mercer. None of this can be reproduced without the express permission, as Mr. Mercer personally scanned this material for archival purposes.
More than 100,000 Critically Endangered orangutans have been killed in Borneo since 1999, research has revealed.
THIS is the ghastly moment purple light broke through clouds and lit up the sky, as onlookers watched on in horror.
A team of scientists from the Department of Bible Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, has deciphered one of the last obscured parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of almost 1,000 ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered in caves near Qumran in the Judean Desert in the 1940-50s.