Big Storm on Saturn: Did you get a telescope for Christmas? If so, point it at Saturn. A giant storm even brighter than Saturn’s rings is raging through the planet’s cloudtops. Amateur images and sky maps are featured on http://spaceweather.com.
Geomagnetic Storm in Progress: At the time this post …
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The 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 10.8 billion miles from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the …
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On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.
It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about …
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The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th, is the most intense meteor shower of the year. It lasts for days, is rich in fireballs, and can be …
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A total lunar eclipse will take place on December 21, 2010, the second eclipse of this year. This eclipse happens early in the morning (GMT) and so will only be partially visible in Europe with the Moon setting just after totality. In the USA, particularly on the West coast, the …
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