Space Objects
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Space Object Plays Chicken with the ISS – Astronauts Forced to Hunker Down in Capsule
Early this morning the ISS and a piece of debris from an old Russian weather satellite almost gave one another a bro-like chest bump. Astronauts had an hour and a half to secure as many of the ISS’s individual modules and get themselves...
Charon Photobombs New Horizon Photo of Pluto
Back in 2006 the New Horizon space probe left Earth on mission to visit Pluto. On July 14th of this year, New Horizon will finally reach its destination and give us a closer look at the piece of rock that was once on the a-list of planets...
Huge Meteor Burns Out Over Russia – Plays Out Like a JJ Abrams Movie!
Like found footage from an unannounced JJ Abrams flick, video is slamming YouTube from all over Russia about a large meteor that hit the atmosphere. Details are still coming in about the event and we’ll have a fuller piece about it later....
Object Lands In Active Volcano In Mexico!
December 21st of this year is the big party date for the supposed end of our world. Sure everyone’s already ordering kegs, ordering faux “Danger: Apocalypse In Progress – Do Not Cross” banner tape by the case and prepping for their...
Insane High Definition Video of Venus Transit
Space seems to be the buzz word right now and if you’ve been following this site or its individual members for any length of time, you’ll know how much weight that word has around this place. On June 5th, the Solar Dynamic Observatory...
A Look At The Southern Lights… From Space!
It’s either that or we’ve begun principal photography on the long-awaited Ghost Busters spin off Slimer Goes To Space. [Daily Mail via NASA]
Meteorite Strikes Boy’s Hand
photo credit: aresauburn™ Space.com posted an article last week about a boy being hit in the hand with a meteorite. Since then the online community has been abuzz, some excited, some crying fraud. The details of the event itself are...
Unexplained Boom and Flash of Light Over Virginia
photo credit: thedimka Calls poured in to 911 dispatchers in Virginia on Sunday describing an unexplained loud boom and a streak of light across the sky. A space.com article published Monday called a Russian rocket falling back to earth...
Iceballs From Outer Space!
Astronomers have identified two massive balls of ice, orbiting a dwarf planet on the fringe of our solar system. According to sciencenews.org: You’d need a mighty tall glass to hold two space objects that researchers have now identified as...