These three images were sent to me by Fintan Sheerin who shot them in Drogheda, Ireland (a town north of Dublin). He had better luck with seeing the eclipse than I did.
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Images of the March 20th Solar Eclipse
March 24, 2015
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ESA Proba-2 Catches Solar Eclipse
March 20, 2015
As today’s partial solar eclipse crossed Europe, it was also visible from space. ESA’s Proba-2 captured a near-total eclipse from orbit, at the same time as its sister minisatellite Proba-V peered down to snap the shadow of the eclipse on Earth.
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti also found time while running an experiment to record the eclipse from the International Space … Read the rest of this article
A Snapshot of Our Constantly Changing Sun
March 17, 2015
This snapshot of our constantly changing Sun catches looping filaments and energetic eruptions on their outward journey from our star’s turbulent surface.
The disc of our star is a rippling mass of bright, hot active areas, interspersed with dark, cool snaking filaments that wrap around the star. Surrounding the tumultuous solar surface is the chaotic corona, a rarified atmosphere of … Read the rest of this article
The X-Ray Sun
December 23, 2014
For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing images of our sun. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first picture of the sun, producing the most sensitive solar portrait ever taken in high-energy … Read the rest of this article
Watch a Sunset Solar Eclipse on October 23rd
October 18, 2014
Sunsets are always pretty. One sunset this month could be out of this world. On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, the setting sun across eastern parts of the USA will be red, beautiful and … crescent-shaped.
“It’s a partial solar eclipse,” explains longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak. In other words, the New Moon is going to ‘take a bite’ … Read the rest of this article
ESA Solar Orbiter Heat-Shield Passes Test
June 4, 2014
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission has undergone its latest major test: its protective shield has been subjected to concentrated sunlight to prove it can cope with the fierce temperatures close in to our parent star.
A ‘structural–thermal’ version of the craft’s sunshield was recently exposed to an artificial Sun for two weeks in Europe’s largest vacuum chamber at ESA’s Technical Centre … Read the rest of this article
Last month (April 8-11), scientists, government officials, emergency planners and others converged on Boulder, Colorado, for NOAA’s Space Weather Workshop—an annual gathering to discuss the perils and probabilities of solar storms.
The current solar cycle is weaker than usual, so you might expect a correspondingly low-key meeting. On the contrary, the halls and meeting rooms were abuzz with excitement about … Read the rest of this article
The placid appearance of the Sun’s surface belies a hot fireball of plasma in constant turmoil. A granular network invisible to the naked eye pervades the solar disc, with cells of hotter and colder plasma popping up, merging and disappearing within only a few hours.
The boundaries between these constantly moving cells are hectic places. Powerful jets of plasma are … Read the rest of this article
Huge Sunspot AR1944 Erupts – Aurora Alert
January 8, 2014
One of the largest sunspots in years, AR1944, has turned toward Earth and it is crackling with strong flares. On Jan. 7th (yesterday), the active region produced M7- and X1-class eruptions, and more appear to be in the offing. As this alert was being issued, analysts were waiting for more data from solar observatories to clarify the possibility of CME … Read the rest of this article
Yesterday morning’s hybrid solar eclipse was stunning. But depending on where you are in the world you may not have been able to see it at all, cloud cover may have messed with visibility, or you may have had a partial view. So for anyone who missed it, this is what the eclipse looked like from Kenya.
For most North … Read the rest of this article
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