cosmic events
Stellar happenings unfold
Cosmic events are large-scale occurrences in space—supernovae, asteroid impacts, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts.
The phrase emphasizes vastness and forces beyond human control: The extinction of the dinosaurs was triggered by a cosmic event.
Figuratively, cosmic events can describe anything momentous or fate-altering: Meeting her felt like a cosmic event.
- Big BangUniverse's explosive origin
- asteroid impactSpace rock collision event
- lunar eclipseEarth blocks sunlight reaching moon
- star formationDense cloud becomes sun
- solar eclipseMoon obscuring the sun
aurora borealis · supernova · meteor shower · planetary alignment · solar flare · space weather · kilonova · gravitational lensing · black hole · gravitational waves · stellar · heat death · end of days · quasar · cataclysm · meteor · aurora · night sky
- space artstarscape, moonscape, starfield, nebulae, starscapes
- astronomystars, moon, sun, planet, planets
- space rocksasteroid, asteroids, meteorites, meteorite, meteors
- comet artHalley's Comet, comet tails, Bayeux Tapestry