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Comet, rocket, space junk or meteor? Here’s how to tell your fireballs apart
Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.
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How to catch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, debris of Halley’s comet
Cooke/Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA via AP, File) Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years ... this 30-minute time exposure ending at 1:15 a.m. PST, Nov. 17, 1998. Stars moving through the ...
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When To See ‘Shooting Stars’ From Halley’s Comet On Monday And Tuesday
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky.
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Louisiana lawmakers reject bill to eliminate vehicle safety inspection sticker program
A Louisiana House committee voted against a bill to remove the state's annual vehicle inspection sticker requirement. Supporters of the program argue it ensures vehicle safety and could impact ...
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Kentucky planning overhaul of college athletics department into new school corporate entity
The University of Kentucky is moving toward housing its athletics department under a new university corporate entity that school officials say will improve their flexibility to handle rising ...
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Tokyo’s Newest Art Star: One-Year-Old Thumbelina
(Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) Gripping paintbrush and crayon, the artist known as Thumbelina splodges and splats with merry abandon, the one-year-old star of a Tokyo exhibition that goes on ...
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Coronation Street child star addresses absence from ITV show
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A child star from Coronation Street has broken his silence after a long absence from the popular ITV soap. 13-year-old Jude Riordan, who plays ...
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Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star
Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star, disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of mineral dust up ...
The Straits Times24d
Planet with comet-like tail disintegrating near its star, gives scientists unique chance to learn
WASHINGTON – Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail ...
Dawn24d
Planet with comet-like tail observed disintegrating near its star
WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of ...
ZME Science24d
This Planet Is So Close to Its Star It Is Literally Falling Apart, Leaving a Comet-like Tail of Dust in Space
The object, coined BD +05 4868 Ab, orbits a star in the constellation Pegasus approximately 140 light years from Earth. Each 30.5 hour lap strips away surface rock, sending a plume of dust ...