Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere on June 3 and Aug. 20.
Professional astronomers at NASA and other institutions followed up on the discovery and gathered detailed information on the objects, which produced bright spots on Jupiter. The object that caused the June 3 fireball was estimated … Read the rest of this article
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And now, they are featuring their End of Summer Clearance Event, … Read the rest of this article
The host of Public Television’s “Star Gazer” show, Jack Horkheimer aged 72, died on August 20, 2010, of a respiratory ailment, according to a spokesman for the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetariums.
Horkheimer was best known as the creator, writer and host of public television’s “Star Gazer,” the 30-year weekly TV series on naked eye astronomy. Seen … Read the rest of this article
The solar eruption of August 7th might affect Earth after all. Newly-arriving data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) show a CME heading our way with a significant Earth-directed component. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the cloud arrives on August 10th. A movie of the CME is featured on today’s edition of http://spaceweather.com.
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During the early hours of August 1st, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a complex global disturbance on the Earth-facing side of the sun.
Most of the sun’s northern hemisphere was involved in the event, which included a long-duration C3-class solar flare, a “solar tsunami, ” and a massive filament eruption.
As a result of these blasts, a coronal mass … Read the rest of this article
A new comet is swinging through the inner solar system, and it is brightening rapidly as it approaches Earth for a 100 million mile close encounter in mid-June.
Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) has a vivid green head and a long wispy tail that looks great through small telescopes.
By the end of the month it could be visible to the … Read the rest of this article
2010 could turn out to be a landmark year – the year that sees the announcement that extraterrestrial life has been discovered.
You’re probably wondering what nutjob I’ve been listening to. No less a nutjob than Astronomy magazine. Ok, so the magazine is a bit thin and light these days compared to what it used to be. But a snippet … Read the rest of this article
A magnetic filament on the sun erupted yesterday (May 24th), and the blast hurled a coronal mass ejection in the general direction of Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras around May 27th when the advancing cloud is likely to deal a glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field.… Read the rest of this article
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose work was condemned by the Catholic Church as heretical, will be reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.
His burial in a tomb in the cathedral in Frombork (Poland) where he once served as a church … Read the rest of this article
A high-speed solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field last night (May 2-3), sparking a geomagnetic storm that lasted more than 15 hours. In Scandinavia, the Northern Lights were so bright they could be seen through the glow of the midnight sun. Red auroras spilled across the Canadian border and were spotted in several US states. Details and images are … Read the rest of this article
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