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..
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..
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..
Kepler Finds “Extraordinary” Extrasolar System NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System excerpt: Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently..
Most Distant Galaxy Spied NASA’s Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe. Hubble has spied what is most likely the most distant object we have ever..
Antimatter making Thunderstorms It seems NASA has discovered that Antimatter can be ejected into space by thunderstorms on our very own planet. The team at the Fermi Gamma-ray..
Ginourmous CME Detected Reports are flowing in all around about an enourmous M class mass ejection on the Sun’s Easter Limb. See NASA’s image to the right. This huge..
Gold from Space There’s been a long-standing theory that many of the Earth’s precious metals are not native to our planet but came instead from foreign bodies..
The red eye, the dead star and the comets! I saw an interesting article on the BBC science pages today. It seems that NASA’s Spitzer IR telescope has discovered a dust ring around the white..