Earth & Space
Earth and Space News July 22, 2015: Space weather – solar calm; Earthquake watch – peaks July 23-25 due to coronal hole and planetary alignments, 4.0M Quake rocks San Francisco; Scientists Track Monster Waves Below the Ocean Surface; Comparison of 1997 and 2015 El Niño; NOAA Tampering With Global Temps Exposed; Global weather; Remembering Michael Steinbacher
A $100 million donation will fund a new alien-seeking initiative called Breakthrough Listen. Physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced the $100 million project aimed at searching for alien life at a conference in London. The project will use two powerful telescopes that will scan ten times the amount of sky covered by previous efforts.
Earth & Space News July 21, 2015: Space weather – solar calm, Gamma Ray Burst; Earthquake watch; California Bridge Failed in Flash Flood; State of the Climate Report; Global Weather
Earth & Space News July 20, 2015: Space weather – Big Solar Eruption; Earthquake watch; Jupiter Twin Discovered Around Solar Twin; Global Weather
Earth & Space News July 19, 2015: Space weather – solar filament snaps, coronal hole stream watch; Pluto Wags its Tail: New Horizons Discovers a Cold, Dense Region of Atmospheric Ions Behind Pluto; Valuable info…; Global Weather
Earth & Space News July 18, 2015: Space weather – sun is still calm, coronal hole stream; Earthquake watch – Soloman Islands 7.5M quake; Michael Steinbacher; Global Weather
Earth & Space News July 17, 2015: Space weather – beautiful filament eruption; Earthquake watch – rare 6.4M quake strikes Barbados; Methane on Pluto; Earthspots; Global Weather
Earth & Space News July 16, 2015: Space weather: Solar Calm; Earthquake watch; Pluto’s Mountains; Global Weather
One day after its historic flyby of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons space probe has delivered eye-popping photos of the dwarf planet and its moons.
Earth & Space News July 15, 2015: Space weather – solar flaring low, Big Earth-facing plasma filaments; Pluto photographs thrill NASA scientists after nine-year mission; Global Weather
After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
Earth & Space News July 14, 2015: Space weather;How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate; UA Researchers Reveal Elusive Molecule; Ceres/DAWN Gallery; Massive Tornado near Hutchinson, Kansas; Global Weather
New Horizons is racing to Pluto so quickly, we’re literally learning new things every single day. Exploration is a true planet-wide “Today I learned…” moment: we now know what makes up Pluto’s atmosphere, what makes up its ice cap, and exactly how big it is.
Earth & Space News July 13, 2015: Space weather – magnetic storm from coronal hole stream; Global Weather – continued cold in Australia, major storm alert eastern U.S.
Our planet is just 15 years from a new ‘mini ice age’ that could cause extremely cold winters characterized by the freezing of normally ice-free rivers as well as by year-round snow fields in areas that have never witnessed such climate conditions before, a group of astrophysicists claim. The scientists could draw such a conclusion based on a new model of the sun’s activity that reportedly enables the researchers to make “extremely accurate predictions” of changes in solar activity.
