Pin ItemailprintEver since we first ventured into space, NASA has been releasing images of Earth taken from various spacecraft, the so-called “Blue Marble” images. Since the first photo was sent back to Earth, NASA has added several more, including a particularly well-known Blue Marble photo taken in 2002 that’s used as a default background image [...]
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Don’t look now, but we’re going to have a pretty close shave in about an hour. Asteroid 2012 BX34 will be blowing past Earth today, but it doesn’t pose much of a threat despite the fact that it will be closer than our moon. The newly-discovered asteroid, which is about the size of a bus, [...]
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The Earth is literally taking a pounding. A massive blast of plasma energy spewed from the sun on Sunday night and led to the strongest radiation storm since 2005. Delta Air Lines has been forced to redirect certain high-flying airplanes as a precaution. NOAA‘s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch after a [...]
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“Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history.” – Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division Something is afoot, and my guess is it’s something big. All around the world, people are reporting hearing very strange sounds echoing from the Earth and from the skies. The [...]
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Hooray! It’s here! Today is the shortest day of the year. For those of us here in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the longest night and shortest day of the year. After the winter solstice, the days start getting longer and the nights start getting shorter. It’s a seasonal shift that you’ll start [...]
Wow, the news from astronomers just seems to get more and more exciting with each passing day. Two newly-discovered, distant planets orbiting a star 950 light-years from our own planet Earth are the smallest alien worlds yet found, astronomers announced yesterday. One of the two planets is actually smaller than Earth. These planets are orbiting [...]
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The second total lunar eclipse of 2011 will take place on Saturday, December 10, and along with it will come a unique occurrence once thought to be impossible. The best views for this lunar eclipse can be found in Alaska, Hawaii, northwestern Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and central and eastern Asia. Over the U.S. and [...]
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It seems like with each passing week we get closer and closer to answering the eternal question of whether or not we are alone in the universe. Another giant step leap forward has just been made, as NASA‘s Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of the first alien world in its host star’s habitable zone, [...]
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A solar eclipse was visible over parts of the southern hemisphere today, as the moon traveled between the Earth and the the sun for the fourth and final time this year. If you live here in the U.S., sorry, this is not the eclipse you’re looking for. This solar was only visible in southern South [...]
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What is it like to circle the Earth? Every 90 minutes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station get to do just that. Recently, crew members took a series of light-sensitive videos looking down on Earth at night that have been digitally melded to produce the above time-lapse video. Many wonders of the land and sky [...]
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On Thanksgiving Day, you may want to give thanks for the fact that we (hopefully) haven’t all been smashed to bits. NASA has just discovered a new Near-Earth Object (NEO), dubbed Asteroid 2011 WP4 which will graze our planet on Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. The asteroid was just discovered on Friday, November 18, [...]
Well, this should just about clear it up once and for all. The White House has said it has no evidence that extraterrestrial creatures exist. Barack Obama‘s administration made the assertion earlier this week in response to feedback on its website, which allows people to submit online petitions to which officials must respond if those petitions gain [...]
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