Unicorn Meteor Shower: A rare show of falling stars of a mysterious comet will be seen in the night sky on Friday when hundreds of space stones fall in just one hour – the largest of its kind in nearly 25 years. The rain will be visible in the area of the constellation "unicorn" or "monoceros". The meteors in the …
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A new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array with the lowest frequencies in red, the middle frequencies in green and the highest frequencies in blue. Huge golden filaments indicate enormous magnetic fields, supernova remnants are visible as small spherical bubbles, and regions of massive star formation appear blue. [The supermassive black hole at the centre of …
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The Leonid's meteor shower is peaking this weekend and early next week. Every hour about 15 meteors pull over the night sky. The waning moon is shining, but you can still catch some green shooting stars. [19659002] The Leonids have in the past caused spectacular meteor storms with up to 100,000 shooting stars per hour. The next will be in …
Read More »The meteor shower of the Leonids will appear in the night sky tonight. The Leonids will reach their climax late Saturday night until early Sunday morning. It is best to see it at midnight on Saturday night (16 November). According to NASA, the Leonids are considered the main rain, although the rates are often only 15 meteors per hour. The …
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Leonid Meteor Shower will fill the sky with 15 falling stars per hour this weekend – but a bright moon could block the view for stargazers around the world. A meteor shower occurs when the earth wanders through the tail of a comet The mother comet of the Leonid showers is the 3.5 km long stretch via Temple-Tuttle. If the …
Read More »Five-star guard Bryce Thompson announced his commitment to Kansas Tuesday morning and gave the Jayhawks their first five-star recruits since 2018. Thompson – a 6-foot-5 shooter from Booker T. Washington, DC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, selected Kansas over the last four, which included Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and North Carolina. In recent months, Thompson's recruiting has been at the forefront of recruitment. The …
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A meteor explosion is a rare kind of light show. NASA / ISAS / Shinsuke Abe and Hajime Yano Perhaps you know the Perseids the Taurids the Orionids themselves the Draconids, but the alpha-monocerotids are by far not the most well-known the many annual meteor showers. This year is perhaps the most impressive. A new prediction, co-authored by a NASA …
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Credit: University of Birmingham PhD students from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy have published their new wave of gravitational wave events in near real time. Chirp, designed for use on mobile phones, displays the latest alerts from Lasers Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory / Virgo about a possible new gravitational wave. For each new and previous alert, the signal …
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The first wrestling match for women with WWE stars Lacey Evans and Natalya took place on Thursday in Saudi Arabia. Evans is a veteran of the US Marines and Natalya is a Canadian-American two-time WWE champion. They fought in Riyadh at the Crown Jewel tournament and Natalya came out victorious. As the country has tried to distance itself from an …
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