Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies (Source NASA) – This striking video shows how the Earth temperatures have changed since 1880. The color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures…

The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star collapsed. The Vela pulsar is about 1,000 light-years from Earth,…

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 not appear that this is an Earth effecting event. Watch…

A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the…

Much of the U.S. was blanketed by this large storm in December 2012.   This NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite animation shows movement of the storm from Dec.19 through the morning of…

In November 2012 SpaceX’s Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing test vehicle (VTVL) flies nearly two stories (17.7 feet/5.4 meters). Duration was 8 seconds using closed loop thrust vector and throttle…

The December 2012 Geminid shower  produced 50 or more meteors per hour. One of two major showers per year it’s either the August Perseids or the December Geminids that give…

                Asteroid Toutatis image captured December 12, 2012 NASA captured this image when the Asteroid was 4.4 million miles from Earth. This 64-frame…