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…
There’s an account of the ISEE-3 Reboot Project in the NY Times: Rebooting ISEE-3: Space for All – NYTimes.com Government space missions are expensive. New private-sector space ventures always seem to involve billionaires. Yet we achieved results by raising funds a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sun seems to be taking a nap: Spaceweather.com – July.16.14 WHERE DID ALL THE SUNSPOTS GO? This week, solar activity has sharply declined. There are only two numbered sunpots on the Earth-facing side of the sun, and each is so small you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted earlier that the reports that the ISEE-3 Reboot Project had given up on restarting the propulsion system were premature. Project member Dennis Wingo gives a detailed account of the crowd-sourced investigation into what is going on with the thrusters and into possible solutions to the failure […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see posts here, here, and here) appeared to suffer a serious and irreversible setback this week when they were unable to fire the propulsion system to change the spacecraft’s trajectory. While hydrazine fuel still remained in the tank, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman gives the latest update on the suns activities: The sun continues its ramp down – Behind The Black === Bookmark the HobbySpace Sun and Space Weather page and check daily on what’s happening with our nearest star.
Congratulations to the ISEE-3 Reboot Project team on successfully firing the thrusters of the 36 year old International Cometary Explorer to spin it back up: ISEE-3 Engines Fired For Spin-Up – Space College Additional ISEE-3 Spin-up Confirmation – Space College ISEE-3 Current Location 3 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman describes the what happend last month in the solar cycle’s ups and downs: Is the Sun’s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending? – Behind The Black Find lots more real and near real time imagery and data from space on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A scan of news and blog posts at Zooniverse citizen science projects: The Sunspotter project was introduced quietly earlier in the year and the first round of classifications has been declared a success and a new one is underway: Become a Sunspotter and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the International Space Station’s orbit follows above the line between day and night on earth, the sun will never go completely below the horizon. ISS astronaut Reid Wiseman created a 6 second looping video he made from images over such a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project (see the recent post ISEE-3 Reboot Project takes command of the spacecraft) continues to make progress in the effort to resurrect and re-target NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) spacecraft, launched in 1978 to study the earth’s magnetosphere but re-targeted to study […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A great look at a huge burst of energy and mass from the sun’s corona courtesy of NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) : A First for NASA’s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material A coronal mass ejection, or CME, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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