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September guide to the bright planets Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | September 1, 2019 There are only 2 planets easy to see in September 2019. Jupiter and Saturn can be found in the sky at nightfall and stay out until late night. Mercury and Venus are lost in the glow...

Canada’s UFO community is thriving in Canada. Global News | Published on Aug 29, 2019 From the “experiencers” who believe they’ve been abducted by aliens to hundreds of documented sightings each and every year, it’s getting harder to ignore what’s long been considered a fringe group of...

Russian Soyuz docks with ISS on 2nd attempt Sharmila Kuthunur in SPACE | August 27, 2019 After the Soyuz MS-14’s first automated approach to the ISS was aborted due to a malfunction, the spacecraft has now docked safely at the station’s Zvezda module. It carries supplies for the crew and a...

Astronomers just saw a black hole eat a neutron star Nicole Karlis, Salon | August 26, 2019 10:20PM (UTC) In the first detection of its kind, two dead stars of different composition collided What happens when two dead stars meet in deep space? In this case, one devours the other. In the...

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts Radio, IR and optical observations show evolution of plumes and their impact on belts and zones University of California - Berkeley | August 22, 2019 Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white...

Alabama festival celebrates UFO sightings Tucker Legerski, Alabama Public Radio | August 22, 2019 (FYFFE, AL)-- It’s time to celebrate Alabama’s most well-known UFO sighting. On Saturday, Fyffe is hosting its 15th annual UFO day. Brandi Clayton is the Town Clerk for Fyffe. She said the event...

Summer Triangle on August Evenings Posted by Bruce McClure in TONIGHT | August 17, 2019 We’ve recently seen Orion’s return to the east before dawn, which means our northern summer is beginning to draw to a close. But the Summer Triangle asterism still rules the skies. It pops out first...

And brief history of Saturn's amazing rings Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation | Published: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Although the rings of Saturn may look like a permanent fixture of the planet, they are ever-changing. New analyses of the rings reveal how and when they were made — and whether...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 19 August 2019 1901 Photograph: The Orion Nebula Image Credit: George Ritchey, Yerkes Observatory - Digitization Project: W. Cerny, R. Kron, Y. Liang, J. Lin, M. Martinez, E. Medina, B. Moss, B. Ogonor, M. Ransom, J. Sanchez (Univ. of Chicago)...

A massive star completely destroyed by a supernova is puzzling scientists Korey Haynes | Published: Friday, August 16, 201 The death blast of a star some 200 times the mass of the Sun, challenges theories about how such massive stars die. Supernova 2016iet is an example of one of the most...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 16 August 2019 The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus Image Credit & Copyright: Chuck Ayoub Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396...

Overview of Our Solar System NASA | Solar System Exploration And now for something completely different: A site to explore our solar system that was created by NASA.

Something Just Smacked Jupiter and Here's the Photo to Prove It Meghan Bartels, Science & Astronomy | 10 August 2019 Image of Jupiter appears to capture flash of an asteroid striking on Aug. 7, 2019. A photograph captured by amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel appears to show an asteroid...

The 2004 USS Nimitz UFO Incident | Contact Discovery Channel | Published on Aug 8, 2019

Right now (7:30 AM ET start), on NBC Sports, Manchester City is playing West Ham United. It has taken a little bit for Man City to show their championship form, but they're now starting to dominate. Tottenham (my favorite...remind me a little bit of the Mets of yesteryear) plays Aston Villa at...

Repeating outbursts of 40,000-degree wind discovered near black hole Ashley Strickland, CNN | Updated 7:14 PM ET, Fri August 9, 2019 An artist's impression of a unique system where pulsing hot winds blow away from a black hole. (CNN) About 25,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have...

Rivalling Juno, Hubble snaps stunning views of Jupiter Astronomy Now | 8 August 2019 The video, based on Hubble data, shows a full rotation of Jupiter (credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), L. Hustak (STScI). Pictures...

Many UFO Sightings Reported in Western Pennsylvania, US Associated Press, Wire Service Content | 4, 2019, at 12:51 p.m. While the Kecksburg UFO sighting has become a quaint part of local lore, more recent reports of unexplained aerial phenomena are getting serious attention from Congress, the...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 6 August 2019 Mimas in Saturnlight Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Mimas lies in near darkness alongside a dramatic sunlit crescent. The mosaic was captured near...

Albireo, beloved double star Bruce McClure in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | BRIGHTEST STARS | August 4, 2019 Albireo is known best for the striking color contrast between its two stars – the brighter gold star and the dimmer blue star. Albireo, one star blue and the other golden. Photo via Tom...