Aimless In Space
--J.B.S. Haldane--
Rachael - Detroit - WSU
Mad Scientist-in-Training
Clastrophysicist (Classics/Astronomy/Physics)
This is my super spectacular (mostly) space blog!! I also enjoy math, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, jellyfish, Detroit, Futurama, and cats.
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Happy Birthday, Sir Ian ♥ Born May 25, 1939.
“Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to...
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you’re my favorite
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The Men of Star Trek: Into Darkness
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Huge Solar Filament Stretches Across the Sun
The Sun wanted to let us know there was action going on in other places in the Solar System besides Mars. A huge, dark-colored filament stretched across nearly half the solar face on August 5th. Estimates are this filament was about 800,000 km in length! Wow! Paul Andrew took six images to create a composite, full image of the Sun, and below is an 11-panel mosaic by Leonard Mercer from Malta to show the surrounding region with the main sunspots 1535, 1538, 1540 present.
A three-dimensional time-for-space wiggle image of the Sun taken by STEREO
Size of the Sun seen from the other planets of the Solar System
Magnetic field lines between two active regions extended across about one-third of the Sun to make their connections (July 23-24, 2012).
The magnetically powerful active regions were just rotating into view, giving us a wonderful profile of their activity. The lower active region also spurts out several bursts of plasma as well. The looping arcs above each active region shows off the field lines nicely too.
Sunny Sunday by John Nassr
The monsoon season’s cloudy weather gave way to a bright sunny morning and a chance for me to capture a few sunspots, prominences, and dark filaments in the Sun.
Coronal Mass Ejection - July 17, 2012
(if you click on the image - the animation works??!)
Today’s X1.4-class solar flare released a Type O Coronal Mass Ejection, traveling at approx. 1,400 km/s. It is traveling Earth bound but and its impact will create some geomagnetic storms, currently estimated between G2 and G4 levels. That could produce aurorae as far South as Northern California and Alabama and central UK/ Europe.
Credit: NASA SDO
Major Solar Flare Erupts From Giant Sunspot
The sun unleashed a huge flare Thursday (July 12), the second major solar storm to erupt from our star in less than a week.
The solar flare peaked at 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT) as an X-class sun storm, the most powerful type of flare the sun can have.
“It erupted from Active Region 1520, which rotated into view on July 6,” NASA officials said in an alert. Active Region 1520, or AR1520, is a giant sunspot currently facing Earth.
Calendarium and ephemerides by Joannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476)
Manuscript copy of the Calendarium and Ephemerides as published by Regiomontanus in 1474 in Austria. The Calendarium, for 1475-1530, gives information on lunar and solar eclipses, the length of days, and the signs of the zodiac and planets. Also includes a table of time corrections for cities in reference to a longitude of approximately 10 degrees east (thus making no correction for Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Ulm, or Milan).
The Ephemerides, consisting only of tables updated to begin in 1480 and ending in 1506, provides positions for the sun, moon, and planets for each day of each year
photo negatives of an eclipse
