Archive for the 'Sun' Category
Here’s a photograph that three University of Toronto scientists were able to capture images of the star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 from a distance of about 500 light years away. This image is making history as the first ever photograph of a planet in an alien solar system around a sun-like star.
This photograph will challenge currently accepted […]
Here is a fact that is generally agreed on by scientists: the sun is constantly growing and expanding. “Hey great, more beach days,” you may think. Well in the future (we’re talking several billions of years, but still) this growth could cause the sun to obliterate the earth, making it an uninhabitable, hot, brown mass […]
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Posted By: rebecca | Sep 8th
Solar eclipses have been blamed in the past for war, famine, and the deaths of kings. But the upcoming total eclipse on August 1 will mostly be celebrated by excited sky-watchers—even if it won’t break any records.
The sun will be completely obscured for just under two and a half minutes, “a tad on the short […]
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Posted By: ashley | Jul 28th
An artist’s impression shows the trio of super-Earths discovered by a European team and announced on June 16, 2008.
The three planets are 4.2, 6.7, and 9.4 times more massive than Earth and orbit the star HD 40307 every 4.3, 9.6, and 20.4 days, respectively.
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According to Anne Minard
HONG KONG - With rising demand for solar energy in Europe and the United States, China-based Suntech Power Holdings is expected to increase its profit by 75% and become the world’s No. 1 solar module manufacturer in 2008.
In a research report published Wednesday, Citigroup projected that Suntech Power would become the largest supplier of photovoltaic […]
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Posted By: ashley | Mar 6th
X-ray images taken from a new international spacecraft show that the sun’s magnetic field is much more turbulent than scientists knew, NASA reported Wednesday.
They saw twisting plumes of gas rising from the sun’s corona and reacting with the star’s magnetic field, a process that releases energy and may power solar storms and coronal mass ejections, […]
Earth’s shadow will begin moving across the moon at 3:18 p.m. EST Saturday, with the total eclipse occurring at 5:44 p.m. EST and lasting more than an hour.
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Posted By: froosh | Mar 2nd
NASA’s next space shuttle crew is now slated to launch one day early, on March 15, to deliver a new set of solar arrays to the International Space Station (ISS) during an 11-day mission. A March 15 launch lift off would occur at about 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 GMT).
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No need to hold your breath, but this does suggest what will happen when our solar system fades away:
A debris disk spied recently around a distant dead star is likely the remains of an asteroid that was vaporized when the star died, scientists say.
The discovery, detailed in the Dec. 22 issue of the journal Science, […]
From Space.com, as seen on CNN:
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights.
“We’re looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming” to begin probably around mid-day Thursday, Joe Kunches, Lead Forecaster […]