Guess what the sun had for dinner this week? Give up? Okay, I’ll let you in on the story… Our local star ate a comet.
NASA’s orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory had been studying comet ATLAS S1 approach the sun, using its occulter to block out the light from our star’s disk and astronomers got to witness its last moments.
With the recent flux of aurora, I’m sure many of you have heard the use of two terms: solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME). While both reach Earth and can produce auroras, they are not to be confused with one another…
SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM PREDICTED: A geomagnetic storm (G1-G3) that sparked auroras as far south as Arizona and Texas on Oct. 7th and 8th is finally over. If you missed the show, good news: more auroras are in the offing. The sun just launched another CME directly toward Earth, and it could cause a severe G4-class storm when it arrives on Oct. 10th…
If you haven’t heard about The Kessler Syndrome, it’s a phenomenon in which the amount of junk in orbit around Earth reaches a point where it just creates more and more debris causing huge problems for satellites, astronauts and mission planners. …
Help us classify the shapes of galaxies. Galaxy Zoo Euclid is now LIVE at Zooniverse – Be the first to see these images from the Euclid space telescope. And I’m proud to say, I’m once again taking part in helping …
The sun released an X1.5 solar flare early this morning (2:33 UTC on July 29). This flare, along with many of the M flares over the past two days, has a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with it. CMEs from …
