Mar’s Mount Sharp Panorama in raw color
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in raw color as recorded by the camera. Raw color shows the scene’s…
Over One Thousand Exoplanets found in Two Decades
(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – The milestone of 1,000 confirmed exoplanets was surpassed today after twenty-one years of discoveries. The long-established and well-known Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia now lists 1,010 confirmed exoplanets….
WOW! NASA Releases Canyon of Fire Video of Sun
This spectacular image was taken on Sept. 29-30, 2013, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which constantly observes the sun in a variety of wavelengths. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped…
Solar Flares, Strong X-ray Event exceeded X2(R3)
In the last 24 hours there have been at least 3 significant Flares on the sun. As you can see from this image there are several significant sun spots in…
M4 Class Solar Radio Blast
Sunspot AR1875 erupted on Oct. 22nd (21:20 UT), with M4 level radio emissions. An alert was sent by the NOAA space weather division. There is a 30% chance of M…
Planets misaligned in exoplanet system
(Source NASA) – A long-standing puzzle in the study of exoplanets is the formation of hot Jupiters, gas giant planets that snuggly orbit their host star. To explain their short orbital…
SpaceX Grasshopper completes 744m test flight
This video shows SpaceX Grasshopper completing a test flight to an altitude of 744 meters on Monday, October 7th. After reaching the designated altitude it safely returned to the launch…
Comet ISON intact, We may still get a good show.
(Source NASA) – A new image of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some predictions that the fragile icy nucleus might disintegrate as the…
