Tag Archives: Sun
Three Years Of Sun In Three Minutes
“In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in … Continue reading
Melodysheep – Escaping Earth With Morgan Freeman
Melodysheep – Escaping Earth with Morgan Freeman. The one and only Morgan Freeman wants you to go to space. Who am I to argue? Onwards!
Coronal Rain On The Sun
“Does it rain on the Sun? Yes, although what falls is not water but extremely hot plasma. An example occurred in mid-July 2012 after an eruption on the Sun that produced both a Coronal Mass Ejection and a moderate solar flare. What was more unusual, … Continue reading
Russian Meteor
In Russia early this morning, a huge meteor was seen shooting through the sky, shortly followed by a massive sonic boom, damaging windows and setting off car alarms. The compilation video above is from here, and there are many other … Continue reading
Weekly Ramblings – WTF Evolution Foundation Illusions Egg Alphabet
Weekly Ramblings time! We’ll start this week with the alphabet… of awesomeness! Unreality has the most badass alphabet of all time. To give an example, let’s choose the letter R: R is for Ranma Regurgitating Ryoga’s Ramen. Yeah, I don’t … Continue reading
Space 2012
2012 has seen a plethora of science pictures of and from space, and they are truly jaw dropping. Starting with the BBC, they have a few images of 2012 as seen from space. These include the capsized cruise ship Costa … Continue reading
Orbiting Astronaut Self-Portrait
“Is it art? Earlier this month, space station astronaut Aki Hoshide (Japan) recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Visible in this outworldly assemblage is the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an … Continue reading
Dynamic Earth
From coronal mass ejections to Earth’s magnetosphere, this NASA animation details how our climate is formed. “Watch as this NASA animation shows the sun blasting out a giant explosion of magnetic energy called a coronal mass ejection and the Earth … Continue reading
1 Million Earths
How many Earths fit inside the Sun? It’s really rather hard to visualise, but luckily, the Universe Awareness Project in Germany have created this clear ball of Earths to show exactly that (each small blue ball represents one Earth, with the large clear … Continue reading
The Transit Of Venus
Yesterday, people around the world got to experience a rare phenomenon: the transit of Venus across the Sun. In the video above, Matt Parker explains (using spreadsheets!) why Venus crosses the Sun from the Earth’s point of view twice in … Continue reading
