Tag: comets

While astronomers debate Oumuamua spacecraft hypothesis a secret mission was sent to explore it

Written by Dr Michael Salla on January 18, 2019.

On January 16, the head of Harvard University’s astronomy department, Prof. Abraham Loeb, gave an interview where he defended his controversial paper that the interstellar object detected by a Hawaii based telescope on October 19, 2017, and named “Oumuamua”, was a spacecraft of some kind. While astronomers...

Comet ISON arises like Phoenix from the dead – now what for Xmas?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on December 1, 2013.

ISON appears as a white smear heading up and away from the sun. Image Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/GSFC On U.S. Thanksgiving Day, Comet ISON survived perihelion – its closest approach to the sun. Initial observations from NASA scientists were that ISON did not survive perihelion as it disappeared into the...

Is Comet ISON accompanied by UFOs?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on October 14, 2013.

The latest news reports reveal Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) is brightening and may yet become the comet of the century. But is ISON a comet? A startling photo has been circulating of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) that shows it comprises three objects rather than a solitary nucleus as claimed by NASA astronomers....