August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
...red sparkles on the ‘saucers’ was that the sky turned reddish during sunrise. Grechko called the other ...aliens attack’ through the viewport. Skylab space station After staring at the dark sky for a few seconds, Bill Pogue burst out laughing. He said: ...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... visible in an urban neighbourhood have a magnitude of +3 and the faintest stars observable with a naked eye under dark skies have magnitudes of +6. “All satellites will leave several dangerous trails in astronomic images and will be particularly...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
... community as it is. After the first batch of satellites were deployed, pictures surfaced of a train of lights sailing through the dark skies in one long line (see below). An image that quickly cast the Starlink satellites as having a negative impact...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... above them and they seek to contain it. Although I join in their demand and support the creation of International Dark Sky Reserves, territories sufficiently protected from the light of human activities, it seems that we have never been surrounded...
24 May 2021
A CubeSat that produces visible light on the ground to be launched in NASA initiative
... will see a flash from the satellite in the night sky,” said Principal Investigator Jaime Sanchez de la Vega, of Vega...with a growing number of satellites leaving visible trails through the dark skies; dodging light from one which fires up at the press...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
...– it is just about visible with the naked eye if observed from a dark skies location on Earth. It is therefore best to view the comet through binoculars ... However the comet is still speeding through the sky and will be detectable in the weeks to come...
