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Curiosity Captures Mercury from Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover may be busy exploring the rugged and rocky interior of Gale Crater, but it does get a…
Virtual Star Party – February 23, 2014 – Nebulae, Sunspots, and Planet “X”?!?
Hosts: Fraser Cain & Scott Lewis Astronomers: David Dickinson, Gary Gonella, James McGee, Mike Simmons, Roy Salisbury, Shahrin Ahmad, Tom…
Virtual Star Party – February 16, 2014: Fighting Crime while Transiting Jupiter!
Hosts: Fraser Cain & Scott Lewis Astronomers: David Dickinson, Gary Gonella, James McGee, Tom Nathe, Mike Phillips, Mike Simmons, Roy…
Giant sunspot convulses but all quiet on the aurora front … for now
What a crazy sunspot cycle. Weeks go by with only a few tiny spots freckling the sun, then all at…
Virtual Star Party – January 19, 2014: Jupiter, the Moon and Nebulae
Host: Fraser Cain Astronomers: Andrew Dumbleton in the UK David Dickinson in Florida Shahrin Ahmed in Malaysia Gary Gonella in…
Watch Live Webcast of the Active Sun
The team from Slooh will broadcast a live Solar special focusing on the sudden emergence of hyperactivity on the Sun…
Astrophoto: A Man-Made Sunspot
The Sun has been active recently along with showing several sunspots. But astrophotogher Efrain Morales captured an additional 'man-made' sunspot…
Astrophotos: Monster Sunspot Evolution
Caption: A 5-day sequence of sunspot group AR1520. Credit: Shahrin Ahmad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Click to see a larger version.…
How Big Are Sunspots?
[/caption] The short answer? Really big. The long answer? Really, really big. The image above shows sunspot regions in comparison…
Big Sunspot; Little Chinese Space Station
[/caption] Astrophotographer extraordinaire Thierry Legault has made a name for himself with his images of spacecraft transiting across the face…