Northern lights may expand south next couple days
Northerners thawing out from a bitter freeze may get rewarded with shimmering northern lights the next couple days.
Space Exploration
Jan 8, 2014
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Using digital SLRs to measure the height of Northern Lights
Scientific research doesn't often start from outreach projects. Yet, Ryuho Kataoka from the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, came up with an idea for a new method to measure the height of aurora borealis ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2013
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Deep and wide: Stunning amateur view of the lagoon and trifid nebulae
Here's a beautiful deep look at a wide-field view of the Lagoon Nebula (M8, NGC 6523) and the Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) along with star cluster M21 and star forming region NGC6559. Amateur astronomer and astrophotographer ...
Astronomy
Aug 12, 2013
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Comet Pan-STARRS holds promise for stargazers
A rare bright comet shows up in the northern hemisphere this week, cruising past Earth with promise of spectacular naked-eye viewings of the giant ball of ice and dust streaking the twilight sky with a blazing tail.
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2013
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Saturn's north polar hexagon
(Phys.org)—Saturn's north polar hexagon basks in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn's signature rings, which appear to disappear ...
Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2013
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An older Vega: New insights about the star all others are measured by
Vega, a star astronomers have used as a touchstone to measure other stars' brightness for thousands of years, may be more than 200 million years older than previously thought. That's according to new findings from the University ...
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2012
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Prepare for a total solar eclipse
(Phys.org)—Tomorrow's total solar eclipse will only be visible in its entirety to ground-based observers watching from northern Australia, but ESA's Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite will have a ringside seat from its orbit ...
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2012
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Night-time view of Aurora
(Phys.org)—Overnight on October 4-5, 2012, a mass of energetic particles from the atmosphere of the Sun were flung out into space, a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection. Three days later, the storm from the Sun ...
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2012
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UI instruments aboard twin NASA spacecraft set for launch Aug. 24
On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission to study the extremes of space weather and help scientists improve space weather forecasts.
Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2012
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Sounds of northern lights are born close to ground
For the first time, researchers at Aalto University in Finland have located where the sounds associated with the northern lights are created. The auroral sounds that have been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 9, 2012
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