ISS Flyover catches Aurora Australis Not really much to say about this one. Just a very impressive video of the Southern Lights as captured by the ISS on a flyover between Madagascar..
Big Solar Prom Large solar prom from the 23rd March 2011. My first time taking the wee 40mm PST out in ages so seeing proms this large was a nice surprise. For my..
NASA Snaps the Green Isle St Patrick’s Day 2011. Here’s one for Paddy’s day. The NASA Earth Observatory snaps an image of Ireland and publishes it as their Image of the..
Voyager Studies Solar Wind Man’s most distant creation, Voyager 1 is still going strong. NASA have swung it 70 degrees from it’s normal orientation to align it’s instruments..
The Sun Well it’s not news per se but here’s a link to article that the guys at Space.com have posted giving a great overview of the Sun, it’s evolution..
Glory Fails to Reach Orbit A sad blow for climatologists – NASA’s Glory spacecraft has failed to reach orbit. The Taurus XL rocket was carrying two instruments designed to..
The Missing Sunspots Problem Explained I began looking at the Sun in white light in 2007 and got the bug for H-Alpha observing in 2008. There were plenty of predictions that activity..
Stereo is Here! Feb 2011. NASA Releasing First Views Of The Entire Sun On Super Sun-Day NASA has released the first ever full sun images. Taken with the twin..
Kepler Finds Rocky Exoplanet It seems that Nasa’s Kepler project has had it’s first success in finding a rocky extra-solar planet weighing in at 1.4 times the mass of the..
Kepler’s back in Action NASA’s Kepler is back in action after a 64 hour outage. Looks like there was nothing wrong with the spacecraft other than some dodgy..
