The local Broome County observatory is offering a preview of the Great American Solar Eclipse, preparing people in the region for the darkening of the sun this month.
After witnessing some of the damage that a dinner table-sized meteor did last week after crashing into central Russia, imagine the magnitude of destruction that would have occurred if that flaming rock was the length of 18 football fields. Now stop imagining, because scientists say it happened.
With more reports of things flying and dropping from the sky, should we be afraid of meteors and asteroids? One astronomer says we should, at the very least, be concerned.
It is said to have lasted only as long as three seconds but many in the Miami-Dade and Broward areas witnessed a "ball of light" in the sky over the weekend.