NOAA’s DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) spacecraft has a clear view of the hemisphere of the Earth facing the Sun. This can give it a great view of the Moon and Earth together. In the video below, I concantenated three videos produced by the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a cool GIF animation of images of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): Sun-Watching SDO Does a Somersault On July 6, 2016, engineers instructed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, to roll 360 degrees on one axis. SDO dutifully […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Sun has gone spotless as it enters the less active phase of the solar cycle: Vanishing Sunspots – Spaceweather.com – June.4.2016 – Forecasters expect the next Solar Minimum to arrive in 2019-2020. Between now and then, there will be lots of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mercury transit was seen by observers on the ground and by satellites in space. The best views of the transit came from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, whose multiple imagers showed the transit in different parts of the spectrum: Another SDO view: http://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/movies/Mercury_AIA96s_171/All/Mercury_AIA96s_171_All.mp4 Here […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Monday the planet Mercury will transit across the face of the Sun as seen from earth between about 7:12 am and 2:42 pm EDT : Mercury Enters Spotlight on May 9 – NASA. This video shows the path that it will take: Don’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via the DSCOVR spacecraft, you can now see daily images of the full side of the earth facing the sun: Daily Views of Earth Available on New NASA Website NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Great views of the Moon transiting across the face of the Earth have been taken by the DSCOVR science spacecraft, which was launched to the Earth-Sun Lagrange point L-1 back in February on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. From a Million Miles: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman gives an update on the solar cycle: The sunspot crash continues – Behind The Black
The number of sunspots decreased significantly in February as the current peak in the solar cycle winds down: Sunspots crash in February – Behind The Black –
NASA Goddard marks the five year anniversary of the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory with some cool videos: New Videos Highlight NASA SDO’s Fifth Anniversary February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a DNEWS report on the space weather data gathering DSCOVR spacecraft, which SpaceX is hoping to launch today:
Chad & Linnea Blakley of Lights Over Lapland assist people from all reaches of the globe see and photograph the magical aurora borealis in Abisko National Park, Sweden. We offer a full range of photo adventures including five-day all inclusive Aurora Photo Expeditions, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Voyager 1 space probe is currently over 19.5 billion kilometers from earth and considered to be in interstellar space. It still occasionally detects waves in the extremely thin haze of ionize particles that it is flying through. The waves are driven by coronal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an update on the solar cycle, which appears now to be following a predicted path: Solar maximum ramp down continues- Behind The Black Follow the sun and space weather daily on the The Sun & Space Weather page here at HobbySpace. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are two new episodes of Xploration Outer Space Online – Free at Hulu : * Our Dynamic Sun | Hulu * The Life and Death of Stars | Hulu
The earth has been hit with a couple of large coronal mass ejections (i.e. solar flares) from the sun in the past couple of days and this is creating some spectacular auroral displays. Spaceweather.com Realtime Image Gallery – lots of beautiful […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sunspot number held close to steady in August: The solar maximum lingers on – Behind The Black Latest plot of sunspots in the solar cycle:
Since my last post on the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, the team determined that it was impossible to restart the propulsion system due to the absence of the nitrogen pressurant gas needed to force fuel into the thrusters. They spacecraft therefore cannot be put into […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sunspot number in July hints that the peak in this phase of the cycle may be on the downslope : Solar Cycle Progression – NOAA ===
Recent studies find that a large solar eruption in 2012 could have fried vast swaths of electronic systems worldwide if it had impacted the earth: Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 – NASA Science Newt Gingrich’s Space Nightmare Almost Came […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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