Month: March 2016

  • Cybersky Free Planetarium Software

    Cybersky Free Planetarium Software

    CyberSky is an accurate, yet easy-to-use planetarium program that provides an excellent way to learn about astronomy and explore the sky visible in the distant past, the present, and the far-off future. CyberSky can display and print attractive, highly-customizable maps of the sky as seen from your home, your favorite vacation spot, or any other…

  • Could A Super Solar Flare Take Out The Earth?

    Could A Super Solar Flare Take Out The Earth?

    Superflare of 2012 With over 4.5 million views, this NASA video of an absolutely massive 2012 solar flare – having a coronal mass ejection of over 900 miles per hour is simply amazing.  Oh, and think about that 900 miles per hour mass ejection from the sun figure … that’s over 1,320 feet traveled every…

  • Earth is One is 700 Million Trillion

    Earth is One is 700 Million Trillion

    Based on the ‘Copernican principle’, there is nothing special about the Earth in the universe. This has been the standard belief among scientists for a long time. Astronomers have expected that eventually, more planets like Earth would be found. A new study may be proving just the opposite. Earth may indeed be unique. Sweden’s Uppsala…

  • Is it Too Late to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

    Is it Too Late to Reduce Carbon Emissions?

    Conservative estimates predict that with a global temperature increase of just 2°C, sea levels could rise by 25 meters within the next 100 years. If global warming were to reach a peak which causes the Antarctic ice sheets to melt, global sea levels will rise by almost 60 meters, submerging the habitat of more than…

  • The Solar Eclipse You Probably Won’t See

    The Solar Eclipse You Probably Won’t See

    If you have a social media account, then you likely have seeing the posts telling you to watch the sky on March 8th and March 9th, the truth is most of us will not see it. Only those in China, Japan, Boreno, Hawaii, Alaska, and Northern Australia will actually witness the event. Those in this…

  • Close Encounters of the Jupiter Kind

    Close Encounters of the Jupiter Kind

      Interested in your solar system? How would you like to be able to have a close encounter with Jupiter? Maybe you can. On March 8th, 2016 Earth and Jupiter will have a close encounter. The giant planet will be “up all night,” soaring almost overhead at midnight and not setting until the sky brightens…

  • The One Year Crew Returns from Space this Week

    The One Year Crew Returns from Space this Week

      After spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station during which time they conducted a whole array of different experiments, the people who lived on the space station are home. The crew was busy while they were in space conducting a wide range of different experiments. They were trying to determine the effects…