Comet Hartley 2 UpdateComet Hartley 2 Update
<p>NASA’s Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe is closing in on Comet Hartley 2 for a daring flyby today (Nov. 4th). </p> <p>The small but active comet is full of surprises, with
<p>NASA’s Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe is closing in on Comet Hartley 2 for a daring flyby today (Nov. 4th). </p> <p>The small but active comet is full of surprises, with
<p>An active region just over the sun’s eastern horizon is crackling with solar flares and hurling material high above the stellar surface. </p> <p>One of yesterday’s flares, a C4-class event,
<p>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
<p>The sudden emergence of big sunspot 1045 over the weekend has caused a sharp upsurge in solar activity.</p> <p>The active region has produced three M-class and almost a dozen C-class solar
<p>The Moon is about to pass directly in front of the sun, producing an <a href="http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2010Jan15Agoogle.html" target="_blank">annular solar eclipse</a> on Jan. 15th between 05:00 and 09:00 GMT.</p> <p>The zone of visibility
<p>A curious object is about to fly past Earth only one-third the distance to the Moon. </p> <p>Cataloged as a 10m-class asteroid, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K10/K10A59.html">2010 AL30</a> has an orbital period of
<p>On October 8, 2009 at about 03:00 GMT, with no warning, an approx. 10-meter wide asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere above Indonesia and exploded.</p> <p>The break-up was so powerful, it triggered nuclear
<p>Two sunspots, which appeared on the autumnal equinox to break several months of extreme solar quiet [see <a href="https://www.nightskyobserver.com/astronomy-news/new-sunspots-finally/" target="_self">New Sunspots (Finally!)</a>], have faded away, leaving the sun blank once
<p>This weekend’s full Moon has a special name – the Harvest Moon. It’s the full moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox (Sept. 22). In earlier times, farmers depended on
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