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Solved: The Mystery of Earth’s Theta Aurora
The mystery of the northern lights – aurora - spans time beyond history and to cultures of both the southern…
NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s…
What is the Average Surface Temperature of the Planets in our Solar System?
It's is no secret that Earth is the only inhabited planet in our Solar System. All the planets besides Earth…
Weekly Space Hangout – Dec. 5, 2014: Orion’s Successful Launch!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) (more…)
What is the Smallest Star?
We've talked about the biggest stars, but what about the smallest stars? What's the smallest star you can see with…
The Orbit of Earth. How Long is a Year on Earth?
Ever since the 16th century when Nicolaus Copernicus demonstrated that the Earth revolved around in the Sun, scientists have worked…
Curiosity Rover Snaps Photos of Comet Siding Spring, Giant Sunspot and Mars-shine
NASA's Curiosity Rover spends most of its time staring at the ground, but like humans, it looks up once in a while too.…
Why Doesn’t The Sun Steal The Moon?
The Sun has so much more mass than the Earth. So, so, so much more mass. Almost everything in the…
Beautiful Images of the October 23, 2014, Partial Solar Eclipse
"The Sun looks like it has a bite taken out of it!" said one enthusiastic viewer of the partial solar…
Beastly Sunspot Amazes, Heightens Eclipse Excitement
That's one big, black blemish on the Sun today! Rarely have we been witness to such an enormous sunspot. Lifting…