McAlester boys basketball will travel to Collinsville to begin the playoffs in what they hope is the first game on the trail to the state tournament ... .
Kreutz sungrazers dive perilously close to the Sun, unlike typical comets that orbit safely at a distance.Intense solar heat sublimates their ices into gas, causing brilliant glows that are sometimes also visible in daylight.
A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April ... Some even become bright enough to be seen in daytime.Historically, the brightest comets often become known as “Great Comets”.
On Saturday, Feb. 21, the Comets secured a 3-0 road win over Spaulding. Dahlia earned the shutout with 9 saves, while the Comets put 38 saves on the Spaulding net ....
By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with 3I/ATLAS, which is the fastest comet ever seen.