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Enlarge / I mean, maybe, right? Maybe? Probably not, though. Almost certainly not. (credit: Columbia Pictures) Shortly before Halloween, the chairman of Harvard’s astronomy department openly declared that an interstellar object hurtling through our Solar System might just be part of an extraterrestrial craft. And then…crickets. The astrophysics blog Centauri Dreams broke the story to […]
It was a sensation when it was first spotted in 1744, but now we know much more about the effects of solar wind on comet dust. https://media.wired.com/photos/5be5c1f6156bb24b70f7c4e5/master/pass/SPoW_111118_1.jpg
Twenty volunteers have been selected by a German nightclub for a pioneering party in zero gravity. Although the 90-minute bash on board the Airbus A310 won’t cost them a penny, they may not enjoy it. BigCityBeats, the German company behind the endeavor, recruited top-notch DJs, Dutch Armin van Buuren and American Steve Aoki, to entertain […]
To date, every comet humanity has seen inside the Solar System has come from the Solar System, whether it’s the Kuiper Belt or the billions of comets believed to make up the Oort Cloud. Now, however, it looks like astronomers might have found a comet of interstellar origin. They’ve used Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope to […]
No need to Ask Jeeves where Halt and Catch Fire‘s final season is heading. In Episode 3, “Miscellaneous,” all is made clear when Gordon reveals to Donna that Rover’s biggest competitor comes in the form of their teenage daughter Haley. She is the mastermind behind Comet and well on her way to helping develop the first […]
Published time: 7 Jun, 2017 19:07 Edited time: 7 Jun, 2017 19:09 The source of the mysterious ‘Wow!’ space signal which has baffled astronomers for decades might finally have been found. The signal was picked up by astronomer Jerry Ehman in 1977 after he had been analyzing radio frequencies from space as part of Ohio […]
Published time: 21 Apr, 2017 21:48 Stone carvings from an ancient mountain “observatory” in Turkey may confirm the date of a devastating comet which is thought to have smashed into earth nearly 13,000 years ago, archaeologists believe. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh studying etchings of animals at the Gobekli Tepe stone structure in southern […]
