A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images from space-related science news items: [ Update: The InSight Mars lander team has come up with a plan for diagnosing and then testing a possible fix for the ground temperature probe that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images from space-related science news items: ** Experiments designed and built by students were among the 38 R&D payloads on the recent Blue Origin New Shepard flight to 106 km: UCLA students touch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images related to space related sciences: ** Video shows Hayabusa2 landing on asteroid Ryuga and firing a projectile that stired up material from the surface to allow for capturing samples of the asteroid […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv Space episode examined space weather: This week we bring on Dr. Tamitha Skov to talk about Space Weather and it’s impact on your daily life. We also go over how she got started and her journey to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of items regarding planetary science, astronomy, and solar science: ** A solar cycle update from Bob Zimmerman: Sunspot update January 2019: The early solar minimum | Behind The Black January saw a slight uptick in sunspot activity, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A sampling of space and solar science items of interest: ** Parker Solar Probe update: All Systems Go As Parker Solar Probe Begins Second Sun Orbit – Parker Solar Probe On Jan. 19, 2019, just 161 days after its launch […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, joins Voyager 1 in leaving the Sun’s heliosphere and entering interstellar space: NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Early this morning, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket successfully launched NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Cape Canaveral on a unique mission to study the Sun’s corona up close NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun | […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is ready for its launch early Saturday morning. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is About to Lift Off | NASA At [ 3:33 a.m. EDT (0733 GMT) ] on Aug. 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On August 4th, United Launch Alliance (ULA) aims to launch a big Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral to send NASA’s Parker Solar Probe into an orbit that will bring it far closer to our home star than any previous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission offers you the opportunity to launch your name this summer on a spaceship heading for the sun : Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun Want to get the hottest […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman posts his latest report on the sunspot cycle: The Sun goes quiet! Sunspot update for November 2017 | Behind The Black The past month was the most inactive month for sunspots since the middle of 2009, when the last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sun has gone spotless for the past seven days: Spaceweather.com – Oct.15.2017. Nevertheless, there has continued to be solar eruptions leading to brilliant aurora on earth: NO SUNSPOTS, NO PROBLEM: A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is underway on Oct. 15th. This marks the 5th […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of giant flares erupted on the sun today: Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA’s SDO | NASA The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017. The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is imagery of the eclipse as seen from space: Wow! Visible satellite view of #SolarEclipse2017 from (experimental) #GOES16! You can see the shadow along the path of totality! #txwx #nmwx pic.twitter.com/LLI6FqG65n — NWS Midland (@NWSMidland) August 21, 2017 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are several live video feeds on the eclipse as seen from various locations across the US:
The latest TMRO.tv live program is now in the archive: 2017 Solar Eclipse – Orbit 10.29 – TMRO Dr. Madhulika (Lika) Guhathakurta, NASA’s Lead Scientist for the 2017 Solar Eclipse joins us to talk about the upcoming eclipse, the Sun and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Robert Picardo hosts the latest Planetary Post report from the Planetary Society: Starshade & Eclipses – The Planetary Post with Robert Picardo The Total Solar Eclipse on August 21st is coming up! We’re getting ready with the U.S. National Parks Service […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On August 21st, the Kronos Quartet will create music out of the solar eclipse in an event sponsored by San Francisco’s Exploratorium and organized by composer Wayne Grim : Eclipse Sonification with Kronos Quartet Offers a Chance to Listen to “Music of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spaceweather.com reports on another massive explosion from the sun, this time on the farside: Earlier today, July 23rd, a spectacular CME emerged from the farside of the sun. Coronagraphs onboard the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) tracked the fast-moving cloud […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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