What scares you the most: Solar flares? Asteroids? Comets? The unknown Just wondering. For me, it’s probably solar fares… At least there’s the possibility we’d be hit with an asteroid by surprise, but a solar flare? …we got hours of knowledge before it strikes. The ‘knowing’ scares me more than the unknowns…
Solar flared out? …not the sun. A sunspot, 1263, is only getting bigger.. As a matter of fact, here is how SpaceWeather.com reports it: Behemoth sunspot 1263 has almost doubled in size this weekend. A 28-hour movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the spot developing a tail that has added some 50,000 km of length to … Read more
Amazing show that I have recently become addicted to Everyone on earth should watch this program: WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE with Brian Cox
Maybe that Planet X idea isn’t so far off: Japanese astronomers say they have found free-floating planets that do not orbit a star
Amazing: NASA posts thousands of incredible space images…
Space.com: A Korean satellite has caught an eye-catching view of an island in Mexico known for a deep, rocky hole and waters so dark that they earned it the name Holbox, a name that means “black hole.”
We need more lerts. And The Solar Dynamics Observatory has released a new video of a very active sun.. A ‘sun tentacle’ was seen.. You can always find the latest and greatest–or not so great–news on solar eruptions and other space news on SpaceWeather.com.. It’s worth a visit..
Just one last Supermoon image. And might as well, since we don’t see another one for decades. It was bright Saturday night.. Brighter than normal as spring begins.. Beautiful image here from Fred Thornhill of Reuters of Greg Kerr and Allie Mahoney skating under a full moon on Pigeon Lake near Bobcayeon Ontario March 19, 2011..
I found this interesting article from a Canadian source on UFO sightings in Pennsylvania, which apparently is at a level 4 for sightings.. didn’t know. But what is interesting is the location, I81 and 83, described in the article, are both highways I often frequent in my day-to-day life.. And supposedly there was a cigar … Read moreCigar shapes over Pennsylvania
Dramatic image: There is a hole in the sun, and it’s leaking plasma into space.. NASA ready to keep a close eye on coronal holes as they are right at the start of the space weather chain that is expecting to begin soon..