Monthly Archives: September 2011
A night to remember
A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetic field around noon Universal Time on Sept. 26th. The impact set the stage for a night to remember. As soon as darkness fell over Scandinavia, auroras filled the sky with such intensity … Continue reading
Oops, there goes reality.
Looks like Einstein may have been wrong — An international team of scientists at CERN has recorded neutrino particles travelling faster than the speed of light. All the details on http://io9.com/5842947/scientific-breakthrough-physicists-at-cern-have-recorded-particles-moving-faster-than-light The official word from CERN The OPERA result is … Continue reading
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Kepler Discovers a Planet with Two Suns
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a … Continue reading
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Incoming CME
Yesterday, Sept. 14th, an eruption near sunspot 1289 hurled a CME ( Coronal mass ejection) in the general direction of Earth. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab expect the cloud to deliver a ‘glancing blow’ to our planet’s magnetic … Continue reading
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New Supernova Remnant Lights Up
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth in February 1987. Named Supernova 1987A, … Continue reading
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Going supernova…..
What is being called ‘the supernova of a generation’ is happening right now for us on earth. The supernova, which is essentially an exploding star, has been named PTF 11kly. And even though it exploded in the Big Dipper, 21 … Continue reading
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