Arctic Meteor lights up night sky

Programmer/ November 17, 2017/ Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL, Space Weather

On the evening of Nov. 16th, aurora tour guide Tony Bateman of northern Finland was indoors, warming up between auroras, when his surroundings began to vibrate. “There was a huge bang and the cottage shook violently,” he reports. “At first I thought it was an earthquake. Or maybe a tree fell on the cottage roof! I walked outside and inspected

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Interstellar visitor shaped like giant fire extinguisher

Programmer/ November 16, 2017/ Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL, Space Weather

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered object from another star system that’s passing through ours is shaped like a giant pink fire extinguisher. That’s the word this week from astronomers who have been observing this first-ever confirmed interstellar visitor. “I’m surprised by the elongated shape – nobody expected that,” said astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California,

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Programmer/ November 14, 2017/ Minor Planet Center, NASA, NASA JPL, Space Weather

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