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In their latest meeting with scientists, the Japanese government declined to stake a claim to hosting the ILC. Proponents of building the next big particle collider in Japan expressed their ...
Danny Mantle eyed a merchandise table in the corner of the room. It was stacked with Oklahoma City Comets gear. “I think they did a great job on the T-shirts,” Mantle said. “I’m going to ...
Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...
Space is filled with thrilling things to see, from full moons to eclipses, meteor showers and comets, each offering their own distinctive spectacle. And 2025 will be a good year to see comets.
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The aptly named Halloween comet (comet C/2024 S1) has been captured on video, burning ...
BOSTON - It isn't often that we get the chance to see a comet with the naked eye. But, in a year already filled with so many astronomical treats, it looks like we will be able to add a comet to ...
Didn't get enough of last week's northern lights and want more celestial phenomena? A comet that's visible only once every 80,000 years is overhead now. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS likely ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers expect a once-in-a-lifetime comet to become visible in the night sky ...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is nearing Earth and getting brighter. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller last wrote about a comet — Pons-Brooks — in April. Look up, stargazers: A comet discovered last ...
It doesn't have the name recognition of Halley's Comet, but this enormous snowball zipping through space has fascinated at least one astronomer night after summer night for its shape-shifting tail.
There are many different objects in our solar system — planets, the sun, asteroids… and comets! In this project, we are going to make a comet in two different ways and learn about its parts in ...
In a year in which we have already been treated to the "Great North American Solar Eclipse" in April and one of the greatest displays of Northern Lights in the past 500 years in May, what other ...