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Have you noticed the northern lights have been traveling further south lately?

The exact epicenter of the once-in-a-generation celestial alignment will pass over the Jiffy Treet parking lot in Ellettsville.

There was a fireball sighting over the Midwest Thursday around 11:35 p.m.

Known as a blood moon for its dark red hue, the phenomenon won’t occur for another three years.

The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph).

The International Space Station orbits the earth about every 90 minutes at almost five miles per second, meaning views are common, if brief and often dim. Saturday’s flyby will be notable for its brightness and duration.

“James Webb is a force to be reckoned with," Purdue professor Dan Milisavljevic said.

There’s a joke that asks, “Where do astronauts go for a drink?” The answer is, “The space bar!” But in the distant future, you might ask that question literally. There really is alcohol in space, even if we can’t access it yet.

In 1967 a team of astronomers in Great Britain thought they had found extraterrestrial intelligence. They discovered radio sources in deep space that produced pulses of energy at very precise intervals ranging from milliseconds to seconds.

According to reasonable estimates of how many stars have planets, how many planets may be suitable for the evolution of organisms, and so on, our Milky Way Galaxy should be brimming over with life.