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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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…
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…
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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…
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Bob Zimmerman gives an update on the solar cycle: The sunspot crash continues – Behind The Black
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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 –
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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…
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Here’s a DNEWS report on the space weather data gathering DSCOVR spacecraft, which SpaceX is hoping to launch today:
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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…
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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…
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