Unexplained Celestial Observations – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Can One See the Martian Moons Phobos and Deimos without a Telescope?

Even when Mars is very close to the Earth, the two moons that orbit Mars, Phobos and Deimos, are…

What you describe sounds a lot like some of the effects that the Earth’s atmosphere can have on the…

Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to provide a meaningful suggestion for what you might have seen in the night…

There is a really nice way to calculate and visualize the durations of twilight from any location, and specifically…

To my knowledge, no, the source of the “Wow” signal detected by astronomer Jerry Ehman while observing with the…

What you saw could have been a large meteor which produced a fireball like the one caught on camera…

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