Our lives are about to change – Graphene
There are times in history when something big happens and you just know our lives are going to change. Edison and the light bulb, the personal computer and soon we…
M Class Flare with Earth directed CME 10-13-13
The sun unleashed an M1.7 class CME today with an Earth directed CME.At 00:43 UT, sunspot AR1865 erupted with a flash of radiation. The CME should arrive on October 15-16…
Mars Penny after a year on the Red Planet
This is an image of a 1909 Lincoln Penny after about 14 months exposed to the elements on Mars. This penny was made in a time when spaceflight was little…
Pan-Starrs 1 Telescope images first planet without a sun
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, named PSO J318.5-22 was found using the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) wide-field survey…
Sun’s activity heating up. M2.8 Class Solar Flare detected.
The sun currently has eight sunspots visible, up from zero only a few weeks ago. While we wait for the sun’s magnetic field to flip and the solar max to…
Impressive CME Erupts from Sun 10-8-13 Video
This impressive looking CME started late on October 7th. Look at about 10 o’clock on the face of the sun and you will see a boiling prominence rotating into view from…
Gravity – Movie Review
(3.75 out of 5 Stars) – Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock as Bio-medical engineer Mission Specialist Dr. Ryan Stone on her first space shuttle mission and George Clooney as Matt Kowalski, a veteran…
Scientists find new black hole, located in Washington D.C.
With the shutdown of NASA, NOAA, and other scientific institutes due to the U.S. budget issues, you just can’t keep the good scientists down. Unfunded and unpaid, they have continued…
