Your browser does not support the video tag. Is the Sun a ball of fire? And why does NASA send missions to the Sun? NASA’s Heliophysics Director Nicky Fox explains NASA’s latest solar science findings.…
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Ask NASA: What’s up at night?
Looking for something to look at in the night sky? NASA is here to help!
Asteroid 2006 QV89 will come within .05au of Earth
The Doomsday People are at it again. saying that an asteroid has a “non-zero chance of striking earth” around September 10th of this year. Repent! Repent! Well, maybe not. There are a lot of things…
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Asteroid 1999 KW4 makes closest pass to Earth since 2001
A roughly mile-wide asteroid is about to give Earth a proverbial buzz-cut this weekend. The asteroid will come within .032 au of Earth. Zero-point-three-two! Holy moly! But don’t worry. An au, or Astronomical Unit, is…
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Saying “It is colder than Antarctica” about the weather is silly, here is why
I’ve seen a handful of news outlets reporting that Chicago, Minneapolis and International Falls are “Colder than Antarctica!” and “Colder than Mars!” I’m not making this up, either. As if exclaiming that the “Polar Vortex…
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January 20th Lunar Eclipse Information: A Super Blood Moon Eclipse
The lunar eclipse will start as early as 9:30p on the east coast as the moon starts to move behind the Earth penumbra. According to NASA, “At 8:41 p.m. PST (11:41 p.m. EST), the Moon…
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Listening to the wind on Mars
From NASA: Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA’s InSight lander. The spacecraft’s seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph (16-24 kph) winds as they blew across Mars’ Elysium Planitia on…
2018 Perseid meteor shower
The Perseid meteor shower started in mid-July, but will peak during the next few days, before coming to an end in late August. The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best meteor showers of…
