Incandescent Sun (by NASA Goddard Photo and Video)
What is being seen is a fogbow, a reflection of sunlight by water drops similar to a rainbow but without the colors.
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(by Assaf_F)
I AM SHAKING A BOOTY!!!
Star Wars in Watercolor
Created by Terry Cook
Waiter, I didn’t order a dragon curve. I ordered a square. I’d like to speak to your manager.
Sentinels of the Arctic
Image Credit & Copyright: Niccolò Bonfadini
Who guards the north?
Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice. The picture was taken last winter in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow.
Surreal landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become cloaked in white and so appear, to some, as watchful aliens.
Far in the distance, behind this uncommon Earthly vista, is a more common sight — a Belt of Venus that divided a darkened from sunlit sky as the Sun rose behind the photographer. Of course, in the spring, the trees have thawed and Lapland looks much different.
An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO
Credit: SOHO-EIT Consortium, ESA, NASA
Explanation: Our Sun is still very active. In the year 2000, our Sun went though Solar Maximum, the time in its 11-year cycle where the most sunspots and explosive activities occur. Sunspots, the Solar Cycle, and solar prominences are all caused by the Sun’s changing magnetic field. Pictured above is a solar prominence that erupted in 2002 July, throwing electrons and ions out into the Solar System. The above image was taken in the ultraviolet light emitted by a specific type of ionized helium, a common element on the Sun. Particularly hot areas appear in white, while relatively cool areas appear in red. Our Sun should gradually quiet down until Solar Minimum occurs, and the Sun is most quiet. No one can precisely predict when Solar Minimum will occur, although some signs indicate that it has started already!
i still find it really weird that you can just go outside and look at a 1000-billion-billion-billion kg ball of plasma that’s just hanging around in space at 10 million kelvin
in fact you can see loads of them
what
space you are awesome
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Get ready for the transit of Venus!“Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an event that will not be seen again for over a hundred years.The occasion also celebrates the first transit while there is a spacecraft orbiting the planet – ESA’s Venus Express.ESA will be reporting live from the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, where the Venus Express science team will be discussing the latest scientific results from the mission while enjoying a unique view of the 2012 transit under the ’midnight Sun’.A transit of Venus occurs only when Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth. Since the orbital plane of Venus is not exactly aligned with that of Earth, transits occur very rarely, in pairs eight years apart but separated by more than a century.The last transit was enjoyed in June 2004 but the next will not be seen until 2117. ”
Don’t forget to where protective eyeglasses! Get your telescopes & cameras ready, skywatchers! This will be a show you surely won’t want to miss. You can read more about this historical event here, here, here, here, and here. You can read about and see images from the last transit of Venus in 2004 here.
[For more information : http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMLSGZWD2H_index_0.html
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i remember watching a transit with my dad as a kid with a telescope and a piece of paper n_n](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4qskbPlKh1r39hw6o1_500.jpg)
Get ready for the transit of Venus!
“Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an event that will not be seen again for over a hundred years.
The occasion also celebrates the first transit while there is a spacecraft orbiting the planet – ESA’s Venus Express.
ESA will be reporting live from the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, where the Venus Express science team will be discussing the latest scientific results from the mission while enjoying a unique view of the 2012 transit under the ’midnight Sun’.
A transit of Venus occurs only when Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth. Since the orbital plane of Venus is not exactly aligned with that of Earth, transits occur very rarely, in pairs eight years apart but separated by more than a century.
The last transit was enjoyed in June 2004 but the next will not be seen until 2117. ”Don’t forget to where protective eyeglasses! Get your telescopes & cameras ready, skywatchers! This will be a show you surely won’t want to miss. You can read more about this historical event here, here, here, here, and here. You can read about and see images from the last transit of Venus in 2004 here.
[For more information : http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMLSGZWD2H_index_0.html]
i remember watching a transit with my dad as a kid with a telescope and a piece of paper n_n
