Posts Tagged ‘Space’
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010New sun spots forming – the start of the 2012 solar storms?
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010As we approach 2012 – the peak of solar storm cycle , there is evidence that the sun is already starting to experience major new activity this week:
(Also – is it no co-incidence NASA is to launch the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) tomorrow ? – an urgent attempt to study the sun as we approach 2012? ).
A new group of spots is traversing the face of the sun. Sunspot group 1045 is an active region that has produced moderate (M-class) solar flares.
The spots could unleash a major (X-class) flare, though that probability is low, according to the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center.Sunspots are areas of intense magnetic activity, cooler than the surrounding solar surface. They act like caps on a soda bottle, and when things are shaken up sufficiently, the caps blow and a flare of radiation is released, often along with a cloud of charged particles called a coronal mass ejection.
Such space weather can pound Earth’s protective magnetic field, with the most severe X-class storms crippling satellites and having the potential to knock out power grids on Earth.
Each of the new spot in the group is about twice the diameter of Earth, according to Spaceweather.com.Experienced backyard astronomers with properly outfitted telescopes can easily see the spots. However, looking at the sun through a telescope without a proper safety lens can permanently damage your eyes. Continue reading – space
Source: Real UFO’s
Watching The New York Skies
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Mystery Object In Space. Michio Kaku On Fox
Saturday, February 6th, 2010140 Years Of UFO Sightings
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Japanese “Star Wars” Sea Chicken Commercial (1978)
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Hubble Spots Spaceship?
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Apparently the Hubble telescope just spotted what appears to be a flying saucer. No kidding. Gizmodo reports:
Hubble has discovered a mysterious X-shaped object traveling at 11,000mph. NASA says that P/2010-A2 may be a comet, product of the collision between two asteroids. Or a Klingon Bird of Prey. Either way, UCLA investigator David Jewitt is excited:
“This is quite different from the smooth dust envelopes of normal comets. The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably recently thrown out of the nucleus. Some are swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks. Embedded in the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originated from tiny unseen parent bodies.”
OK, David, we will believe you until Jerry Bruckheimer finish his next movie, in which a “comet” suddenly stops, turns to Earth, and starts firing anti-matter rays against our underpants.
The weirdest thing, however, is not only the prettyful X-shaped debris pattern, but the fact that its 460-foot-wide nucleus is outside the dust halo and separated from the trail. This behavior is something which has never been seen before in a comet or any other solar-system-swooshing object.
NASA Probe Finds Trees on Mars
Monday, January 18th, 2010
A NASA probe has returned photographs of what appear to be trees on the surface of Mars.
Rare New Year’s Eve ‘blue moon’ to ring in 2010
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year’s Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. New Year’s Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years. The last time was in 1990; the next one won’t come again until 2028.
Stunning Mystery Spiral Blue Light Hovers Over Norway
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
The mystery began when a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country. It stopped mid-air, then began to move in circles. Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky. Then a green-blue beam of light shot out from its centre – lasting for ten to 12 minutes before disappearing completely.
Onlookers describing it as ‘like a big fireball that went around, with a great light around it’ and ‘a shooting star that spun around and around’.
Snapple “Real Fact” #920
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother’s maiden name was also Moon.
