Earth & Space
Yesterday the sun released TWO X-class solar flares. The first flare was an X2.2, while the second was much more intense and rates as an X9.3. Higher numbers correspond to stronger flares. The X9.3 is the largest flare recorded in our current solar cycle, which began in late 2008, and will likely overpower the earlier one on its way to Earth. The forecast is for impact tomorrow (Thursday).
Did you know that planets and stars actually give off music? Although space is a virtual vacuum, this does not mean there is no sound in space. Sounds still exists in the form of electromagnetic vibrations and can be detected using specially designed instruments developed by NASA.
Check out this list for live-stream webcasts of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.
On August 21, 2017, a continent-spanning wave of instruments from home-made pinhole cameras to the most sophisticated telescopes in operation today will be trained on the Total Solar Eclipse Across America.
As you will see, so many numbers seem to indicate that this eclipse could have some sort of special significance, and it begins a period of exactly 40 days that many believe could be a turning point for America.
Everyone in the continental United States — as well as Canada and Mexico — will get to enjoy seeing a bite taken out of the sun on the afternoon of August 21. No matter where you are, the entire eclipse event will last about three hours, from the moment the moon first touches the disk of the sun, to its maximum extent an hour and a half in, to the point where the sun and moon separate and continue on their solitary journeys.
The August 21 total solar eclipse, along with modern instrumentation, and more accurate measurements of the positions of the stars, should help refine the measurements needed to replicate Arthur Eddington’s 1919 experiment that proved Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Using supercomputer simulations, the research team found a major and unexpected new mode for how galaxies, including our own Milky Way, acquired their matter: intergalactic transfer. As a result, each one of us may be made in part from extragalactic matter.
Interested in the Big Bang? You’ve got to read this!
Solar eclipse skywatchers outside the path of totality will still be able to see a partial solar eclipse. Solar viewing glasses (NOT regular sunglasses) allow skywatchers to look directly at the moon’s progress across the face of the sun. You can also view the progress of a partial solar eclipse using a pinhole camera.
![Watch: Flyover Of Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains [Close-Up Video Footage]](http://i2.wp.com/consciouslifenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pluto-surface.jpg?resize=675%2C240&ssl=1 "Watch: Flyover Of Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains [Close-Up Video Footage]")
This dramatic Pluto flyover footage begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia. The viewer first passes over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula, with the blocky mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of Voyager Terra and then turns southward over Pioneer Terra—which exhibits deep and wide pits—before concluding over the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa in the far east of the encounter hemisphere.
It isn’t the lack of sun activity that is worrying those who study the sun, it’s what happens after the solar minimum occurs.
Professor Hawking, speaking at the Starmus Festival celebrating science and the arts, said that humanity should aim to build a lunar base in 30 years’ time and send people to Mars by 2025. He further said that the goal would re-ignite the space program, forge new alliances and give humanity a sense of purpose.
Investigative reporter and ET/UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe lends stunning evidence about the idea that reality is virtual In April of 2016, at the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate in New York, a discussion was under foot – “Are we living in a computer simulation?” was the question on the table. And though to many […]
Back in August of 1977, a team of astronomers studying radio transmissions from an observatory at Ohio State called the “Big Ear” recorded an unusual 72-second signal—it was so strong that team member Jerry Ehman scrawled “Wow!” next to the readout. Since that time, numerous scientists have searched for an explanation of the signal, but until now, no one could offer a valid argument.
