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…
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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…
The Planetary Society has released three short videos about the solar eclipse over the US on August 21st: Bill Nye explains the basics of a solar eclipses, the path of totality, and how to safely view a solar eclipse with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spaceweather.com reports on a big solar flare today: After days of suspenseful quiet, huge sunspot AR2665 finally erupted on July 14th (0209 UT), producing a powerful and long-lasting M2-class solar flare. Extreme ultraviolet telescopes onboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some additional items about the total solar eclipse over North America on August 21st (see earlier posting): ** Astro Maven Rick Boozer writes about how Weird Things Happen with a Total Solar Eclipse. For example: Long before totality (when the Moon is only […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A total solar eclipse will pass over North America on August 21st. Below are some videos and web resources for the event. [ Update: Astro Maven Rick Boozer points me to an eclipse viewing event that he will be hosting in South […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory) with beautiful images of the sun. ALMA Starts Observing the Sun New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed otherwise invisible details of our Sun, including a new […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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