Archive for April, 2010

Our Sun is Amazing

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a brand new spacecraft launched in February, has began sending back the most amazing and highest quality images of the sun ever taken by humanity.

More amazing images and video
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21apr_firstlight/

Official site of the spacecraft
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory

Our Earth is Constantly Bombarded

Space is constantly raining down about 100 tons of interplanetary material each day. Usually it’s just dust, but sometimes it’s in larger chunks that crashed into the State of Wisconsin (United States) last night (on April 14, 2010).