Sturgeon full moon is lighting up our skies TONIGHT - check out snaps from across the globe
'Sturgeon' is the name given to the August full moon - which will be the last full one of summer 2025.
The name comes from the giant sturgeon fish, which were once more abundant at this time of year in northeastern America.
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Ancient explosion in Louisiana 'proves' lost advanced civilization was wiped out 12,800 years ago
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'I am exploring a mystery, and that mystery is a very strong feeling that the archaeological project is not giving us the whole story about the past, not because of any conspiracy, but because archaeology mainly focuses on physical artifacts,' Hancock explained. 'This approach tends to overlook important evidence found in religious texts and ancient myths, like the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the global flood myth.' 'It's clear to me that something is missing, that during the Ice Age, there was a culture with advanced astronomy, knowledge of the Earth's dimensions, and even the problem of longitude solved.' The study identified what appeared to be a 12,800-year-old depression in Louisiana caused by a cosmic airburst, an explosion in the atmosphere by a space object. Radiometric dating and electron microscopy date the event to the Younger Dryas Boundary, a period marked by abrupt cooling and mass extinctions. Researchers suggested that the 984-foot-long lake and crater-like depression in Perkins could be the first airburst crater identified from this era. Hancock believes the Earth was bombarded by fragments of a giant comet, part of the Taurid meteor stream, thousands of years ago. 'Comets can get caught in the sun's gravity and enter orbit. According to research by Nature and others, the Taurid stream included a massive comet, possibly over 100 kilometers wide, which crossed Earth's path about 20,000 years ago,' Hancock said. He argues the impacts were not single hits but 'like a shotgun blast,' multiple airbursts from objects ranging in size from the Great Pyramid to entire cities, affecting locations worldwide, including the US, Belgium, Syria, Chile and Antarctica. Hancock sees the recent discovery as one among dozens of such global events, possibly including an impact crater as well as airbursts. Rising to fame with Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995, Hancock has faced ongoing rejection from mainstream archaeology. 'That book gathered evidence from mythology, traditions, and design, leading to my conclusion that a global cataclysm wiped out part of human history around 12,500 years ago,' Hancock said. 'The Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, proposed scientifically in 2006, fits this timeline perfectly. Evidence continues to build, though it remains controversial.' Dr West, from the Comet Research Group, stressed the broader implications of their findings. 'The accepted view is that extraterrestrial impact events are extremely rare, especially large ones like the dinosaur extinction event,' he said. 'But smaller, dangerous airbursts like Tunguska in 1908 and Chelyabinsk in 2013 happen more often than believed.' He said evidence points to a major encounter with a giant comet's tail 12,800 years ago, causing widespread devastation without the comet itself striking Earth. 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Sturgeon full moon is lighting up our skies TONIGHT - check out snaps from across the globe
A rare 'Sturgeon Moon' is lighting up skies across the world tonight, as photographers and astrologers alike have taken to social media to share their best snaps. 'Sturgeon' is the name given to the August full moon - which will be the last full one of summer 2025. The name comes from the giant sturgeon fish, which were once more abundant at this time of year in northeastern America.
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