The massive meteor that just shot over the UK was one of the brightest ever seen and other top stories.

• The massive meteor that just shot over the UK was one of the brightest ever seen

  

  Described as a blue and green flash in the sky, a massively bright meteor that passed over the UK in the early hours of Thursday has set a new record as the largest meteor ever sighted by the UK Meteor Observation Network (UKMON). Nicknamed the St Patrick's Day Meteor, it was first spotted by UKMON at 3.16am on March 17 - St Patrick's Day in the UK and many other parts of the world - and momentarily overloaded the station's camera with light because of its exceptional brightness.  While we're n..

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• Rare shark nursery find off south coast a WA first

  

  Angela Pownall - The West Australian on March 19, 2016, 12:20 am Video Rare shark nursery find A veteran WA diver has discovered a remote haven for great white sharks, including babies, that could indicate a nearby nursery off WA’s south coast.Marc Payne, of Esperance, who has been abalone diving off the south coast for 25 years, captured a rare image of a baby great white shark at the site.The undisclosed spot in the Recherche Archipelago could be part of, or be very close to, the first ..

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• How Earth's magnetic field helped

  

  Protective field was critical for life on the planet Not just water and oxygen, life thrived on early Earth thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence of a protective magnetic field.A new study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa Ceti has found that magnetic field plays a key role in making a planet conducive to life.“To be habitable, a planet needs warmth, water, and it needs to be sheltered from a young, violent Sun,” said lead author Jose-Dias Do Nascimento from the Harvard-Smithson..

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• Jurassic World: Melburnians walk with dinosaurs for world premiere exhibit

  

  Jurassic World: Melburnians walk with dinosaurs for world premiere exhibit Posted March 19, 2016 17:22:21 Melburnians will be the first to get up close and personal with dinosaurs at the world premiere of exhibition Jurassic World.Inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic Park franchise, the exhibition at Melbourne Museum will show a glimpse of what life was like on Earth millions of years ago. Imagine Exhibitions chief executive Tom Zaller said the exhibition wa..

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• Earliest stage in protoplanet's formation seen for the first time

  

  An image of a disc taken using the Atacama Large Millimeter /submillimeter Array in Chile shows a very young star known as HL Tau at its centre. The age of this star has been estimated at a million years and it is 450 light-years from earth. The star is located in the constellation of Taurus. The disc with concentric striations is the proto-planetary disc of dust and gas and combining into a planetary system around HL Tau. The ALMA study is considered as the clearest view till date of it. ALMA ..

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• Supermassive black hole in the Milky Way is spewing out cosmic rays

  

  If you thought the Large Hadron Collider was intimidating, think again.The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is the most likely source of cosmic rays a hundred times more energetic than those produced at the LHC, new research has shown.This is the first time a source of cosmic rays in our galaxy has been seen to produce cosmic rays as energetic as one peta-electronvolt (PeV). That is a thousand times more energetic than any source in our galaxy seen before. The supermassive bla..

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• Lights out tonight to shed light on climate change

  

  The Straits Times | Janice Heng, Ng Keng Gene | Saturday, Mar 19, 2016 From Jurong to Marina Bay, homes, offices and other buildings will go dark tonight to mark Earth Hour, a worldwide movement to raise awareness of climate change. Singapore first observed this World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative in 2009, and participation has grown over the years.About 9,000 people took part in WWF's Earth Hour celebrations in 2014, up from 6,000 in 2012.Last ye..

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