Sunspot 11123 Hurls Filament toward Earth Coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft show a faint coronal mass ejection emerging from the blast site and heading off in a direction just south of the sun-Earth line. The cloud could deliv...
David Jewitt will present colloquium about planets on Nov. 17 at UCLA David Jewitt will present the first in the 2010-11 UCLA Science Faculty Annual Research Colloquium Series on Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. in the CNSI Auditorium (between Boelter Hall and Life Sciences-La Kretz Hall). Titled &qu...
Light and dark in the Phoenix LakePhoenicis Lacus on Mars They say you can't judge a book by its cover but, with planets, first impressions do count. New images show where complex fault lines in Mars' Phoenicis Lacus region have resulted in terrain with a distinctly contrasting appearance. Ninetee...
Amateur space enthusiasts launch paper plane into space A team of amateur British space enthusiasts has achieved a world first by sending a paper plane into space. The plane was made out of covered up paper straws was launched in Spain using a helium balloon. A camera on the plane's wing captured dram...
Goldendale Observatory astronomer keeps giant eye on the sky Stephen Stout can show you things you've never seen before, day or night. Weather permitting. The interpretive specialist at the Goldendale Observatory State Park runs one of the largest amateur-built telescopes of its kind in a publi...
Development of the Falcon 1 rocket from Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is taking longer and costing more than expected, but the El Segundo, California based start-up still expects to make its maiden launch this year.
"It’s costing more than I thought, I have to ad...
The sun: That great inferno in the sky. We can't really live without it. Through the ages, that bright burning disc has been worshipped as a god, and had human sacrifices dedicated to it and monuments built in honour of it. For a couple of millennia, it was even thought to be the center of the universe. Ov...
The Charlevoix crater is a large eroded meteorite impact crater in Quebec, Canada. Only part of the crater is exposed at the surface, the rest being covered by the Saint Lawrence River. The original crater is estimated to have been 54 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 342 ± 15 million years (M...
The 22 - 48 metre wide asteroid 2010 VB made a close pass (5.0 lunar distances, 0.0128 AU), travelling at 9.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2010 @ 21:21 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...
The 27 - 60 metre wide asteroid 2010 VU21 will make a close pass (9.0 lunar distances, 0.0231 AU), travelling at 21.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th November, 2010 @ 23:10 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (...
The 4 - 8 metre wide asteroid 2010 VR21 made a close pass (0.9 lunar distances, 0.0024 AU), travelling at 14.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November, 2010 @ 23:11 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the...
A team of archaeologists working on the Kangelu monument in northern Iran’s Mazandaran Province has found evidence suggesting that it might have been a Mithraist temple during the Sassanid era, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday.
The team recently discovered engravings depic...
Herschel reveals details of distant galaxies and quasarsExpand The Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218 is so massive that it magnifies and distorts images of faraway galaxies that appear as 'arcs' throughout the picture. Amazing new data captured by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory - carrying the larges...
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