“Sometime this year, the night sky will get a brand new ‘star’ that will be visible with the naked eye, even in the city. The celestial light show will be the result of an explosive interaction between two neighboring stars that occurs every 80 years.”
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Do black holes even exist? You might think the evidence is overwhelming. But in a new paper, physicists have shown that Einstein’s theory of space-time allows another option, it’s that black holes might be layers of shells with dark energy inside. I had a look, and here’s what I learned.
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“Dr. John O’Meara discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a next-generation space telescope designed to identify and directly image at least 25 potentially habitable worlds & empower humanity’s search for life in the cosmos.”
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“The Great American Eclipse, the first of its kind since 2017, will chart a path of totality April 8 along a southwest-to-northeast line through North America.”
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Professor Martin Rees discusses themes from “The End Of Astronauts”, the Breakthrough Listen Conference, and Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Sentinel”.Professor Martin Rees is a British cosmologist, astrophysicist, and the 15th Astronomer Royal, a post first established in 1675, and to which he was appointed in 1995.
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“Last June, he recovered small magnetic spherules from the Pacific Ocean and claims that the small, round objects were from a “watermelon”-sized object that collided with Earth in 2014 — in other words, a piece of alien-built technology.”
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“But one trick you can use on your own is to scan along the ecliptic. This is a line in the sky that arcs from one spot on the horizon to another, basically following the path that the sun travels from where it rises to where it sets. The cool thing is that the planets (and the moon!) also appear along this same line.”
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Bruce Sees All: the Moon Is Inhabited – Jean-Claude
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The star TYC 8998-760-1 was photographed with two giant exoplanets, the first time astronomers have directly imaged more than one planet orbiting a sunlike star.
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There are a lot of strange occurrences in the sky lately.
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