Though it was previously believed to be iron, King Tut’s dagger is most likely made from meteorite metals. If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at the thought that the Great Pyramids of Giza were built by aliens, a recent discovery might make just a believer out of you. Last year, researchers discovered that one of […]
Depending on your individual spiritual path, there are many different ways you can celebrate Mabon, the autumn equinox, but typically the focus is on either the second harvest aspect, or the balance between light and dark. This, after all, is the time when there is an equal amount of day and night. While we celebrate the […]
Break out the party hats. Astronomers have all but confirmed that the second known interstellar object is currently whizzing through our Solar System – and unlike the first event, we’ll be able to study it in a huge amount of detail. The object was originally given the moniker gb00234, and was discovered by an amateur […]
For only the second time, astronomers believe they have detected a space rock that formed in some distant system before making the interstellar journey to fly through our own solar system. The object, a comet named C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), was recently verified by the Minor Planet Center. According to available observations of the comet, C/2019 […]
“For what is orientation, or direction? What is the meaning of North, South, East or West? How did we derive these fixed points to start with? Not from any local or national origin; for pure direction is entirely independent of locality. It is, in fact, derived solely from the movements of the ‘heavens’. It is […]
