The U.S. Presidential inauguration will get a special show Monday as the Moon and Jupiter will appear very close in…
Category: Astronomy
What do sunsets look like on other planets?
This figure shows an actual image of a sunset on Earth compared to artistic representations for the best candidates of…
Vega – Two Asteroid Belts and the Possibility of Planets
(Source NASA) – Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second…
NASA’S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
NGC 6872 and IC 4970 are two galaxies in the process of merging. IC 4970 is the small galaxy at…
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler…
Video from Chandra, Nutron Star Ejecting Jets of Particles
The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star…
Solar activity heating up, large flare and more sun spots
Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above. It does…
Solar Flare Ballet 12-31-12
A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the…
