X class Flare Oct 2014

Solar Video Shows Five X Class Flares in October 2014

This Video shows five X class solar  from Oct. 19-27, 2014 — This is the largest active region seen on the sun since 1990, including the five X-class flares that erupted…

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Schneider (University of Arizona), and the HST/GO 12228 Team

Hubble Images Stars with Planet Construction Zones

(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty debris disks around other stars. These dusty disks, likely created…

'Confidence Hills' - The First Mount Sharp Drilling Site

Mars Curiosity Finds Minerals First Seen From Space

(NASA) Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded the mission’s first confirmation of a mineral mapped from orbit. “This…

massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744

Hubble sees ghostly light from ancient Galaxies

(NASA) – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago. The mayhem…

galactic

Virgin Galactic Spaceship Death No Surprise

The death of one pilot and serious injury of another during a flight of Virgin Galactic Spaceshiptwo was no surprise at all. A serious accident destroyed the vehicle 45,000 feet…

SETI dish

Why YOU Should Join the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

If you have not heard of it the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been listening for decades now for a hint of a radio broadcast from outside our…

NASA Says Earth to plunge into Darkness in December- The Truth

The internet is all abuzz with claims that the head of NASA Charles Bolden stated he wants the world to remain calm, but there will be three days of darkness…

Rocket Explosion on Wallops launch pad 10/28/14

Orbital Antares Rocket Explodes During Wallops IIS Launch

Approximately six seconds after liftoff an Antares rocket appeared to stall and fall back to the launchpad where it exploded at the Wallops Island launch facility. The International Space Station…