Astrophysics
A rare solar storm may bring the Northern Lights south to the US
Get ready guys: The Northern Lights might be taking a trip south this weekend. The clash of the Titans Photo: Cody Duncan There is a cast the aurora borealis light show will be on full-display for observers across Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, and New York, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s Geophysical Institute aurora forecast Saturday …
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Astrophysics
Are you are pronouncing "UFO" wrong?
A lthough of what you think about UFOs, it's secure to say we can all agree on at least one thing: how to pronounce them. Psyche! If you take it from the guy who popularized the term, we have all been speaking UFO wrong. If you have ever heard someone pronounce UFO in any way other than the initialism "U-F-O" then we are willing to bet you jus…
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Astrophysics
why flashes of light appear on the moon every few hours?
E ver since the Apollo missions examined the lunar surface, scientists have known that the moon's craters are the outcome of a deep history of meteor and asteroid contacts. But it has only been in the past few decades that we have come to know how regular these are. In case, every few hours, an impact on the lunar surface is shown by a bright flash. These imp…
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Astrophysics
Why star shine bright ?
S tars shine 24/7, but during the day the atmosphere displays a “curtain ” of scattered sunlight in front of the celestial objects, which brightness is bigger than that of the stars, so they get “drowned” in daylight. Only a few objects are bright enough to be seen during the day: the Sun, of course, and the Moon. Entire stars and our own Sun is just an …
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