The "pale blue dot" has been twinkling like a brilliant diamond in satellite images, and scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why. Mysterious flashes of light from Earth were captured by ...

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Decades-old sky survey photographs from the 1950s have long puzzled researchers and UFO enthusiasts alike, featuring mysterious flashes of light that defy conventional explanation. Recent analysis ...

As technology becomes available to help those wishing to avoid the annoying flash photography of the paparazzi get some payback, researchers Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus from New York University have ...

ZTF/A. A. Miller (Northwestern University) and D. Goldstein (Caltech) In December, 2019, astronomers spotted a strange kind of supernova in a nearby galaxy located 140 million light years away from ...

Flash photography is often frowned upon. The blinding, flat light of an on-camera flash is about the least flattering light possible. Even with external flashes, such as those from Canon, Nikon, Sony ...