Astronomy (Page 2)

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...

Eta Aquarid Shooting Stars, Messengers From Halley's Comet, at Their Peak

While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as...

Saturn, Ready for Its Closeup

Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon...

Watch Water Become Zero-Grav Jello on the International Space Station

If you get a cloth dripping wet in the absence of gravity...

Three Years in Three Minutes: Whirling Sun Sparks and Flares in Entrancing Video

The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be...

Earth Day: Stunning Aurora Borealis Video Highlights Just How Small We Are

The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next...

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Astronomy

Strongest Sun Eruption This Year Headed Straight Toward Earth, Alights Aurora

ICTMN Staff

April 13, 2013

Plasma from the year’s strongest Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) yet has been hurtling toward Earth since the early morning hours of April 11, when it blasted out from the sun at 600 m...

Awe-Inspiring Tour of Planets in Our Galactic Neighborhood

ICTMN Staff

April 06, 2013

Soar through space with this amazing video showing our possible brother and sister planets in the universe—just in our galactic neighborhood, in fact...

Saturn, Solar System's Time Capsule, Dates Back More Than 4 Billion Years

ICTMN Staff

March 30, 2013

Majestic Saturn, just a yellow dot when seen from Mother Earth, also serves as a time capsule of sorts, with relics f

Green-Tailed Fireball Wows Turtle Island's Eastern Seaboard

ICTMN Staff

March 23, 2013

Last month a meteor streaked across the skies above the Ural mountain range in Siberia, and on Friday March 22 it was Turtle Island's turn...

First Day of Spring: The Skies Have It, as NOAA Catches the Vernal Equinox in Space

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

Spring may have arrived on Earth with a winterish whimper, but what’s happening in the sky is preordained. At 7:02 a.m...

First Day of Spring Brings the Light, but not a Hint of Heat

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

It’s the first day of spring, when day and night are just about equal in length. The moment occurred at 7:02 a.m. Eastern Time today...

Aurora Borealis Bathes Turtle Island in Saint Patrick's Day Green

ICTMN Staff

March 18, 2013

The sun got into the Saint Patrick’s Day act by hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) straight at Mother Earth a couple of days earlier...

Break Out Your Binoculars, or Not: Comet Pan-STARRS Gives Naked-Eye Sunset Show

ICTMN Staff

March 09, 2013

This weekend is the closest that comet Pan-STARRS gets to the sun, and it is predicted to glow brightly right above the western horizon just after our star sets on the evenings of ...