A dozen luminous blue outbursts were thought to be unusual supernovae. A new outburst, the brightest yet, suggests it's ...
Far from our solar system, brief explosions of electric-blue light are flaring in distant galaxies, outshining entire star ...
Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are the very unsexy name for something spectacular and mysterious: a bright ...
Blue flashes form in the same way as green flashes. However, the former is harder to spot because air molecules and aerosols scatter blue light, according to Spaceweather.com. When the atmosphere is ...
The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or LFBOTs, comes in the form of short, bright flashes of light ...
Blink and you'll miss it: two momentary blue flashes in a set of photographs of a serac fall. The man who took them has a theory that hits on unanswered questions in physics. Astrophotographer Li ...
The US Geological Survey describes these lights as “sheet lightning, balls of light, streamers, or a steady glow” that have been documented during seismic events.
Scientists explain how rare bright blue cosmic flashes form when black holes tear apart massive stars, based on new observations of the event AT 2024wpp and similar fast blue optical transients ...