Astronomy (Page 14)

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

The Wrath of Sol: Mother Earth Could Get Socked With Violent Solar Storm by 2020

ICTMN Staff

March 31, 2012

Just as California is waiting for the big earthquake, so now Mother Earth—or at least her passengers—may need to brace for a rock 'em, sock 'em solar blast bigger than the flares t...

Venus, Jupiter and Moon Back for More; Conjunction Lights up March 26 Twilight Sky in Jupiter’s Last Dance

ICTMN Staff

March 26, 2012

Venus, the moon and Jupiter are closing in for yet another love triangle on March 26, official sky observers say...

Luminous Venus Puts on Afternoon Show on March 26 Starting at 4 p.m.

ICTMN Staff

March 26, 2012

The Goddess of Love makes an appearance in the afternoon sky near the moon this afternoon, March 26, if you train your eye carefully—the two are near the sun, and looking in that d...

‘Sunwatchers’ and Equinox Trackers Mark the First Day of Spring Across the Globe

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2012

As Indian Country Media Network noted earlier today, it's officially spring!...

Equinox Phenomena in Action: Video

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2012

Hooray! It's spring! On this day, March 20, 2012, the day and night are almost equally long as the sun passes over the equator in what's known as the vernal equinox ...

Equinox Heralds New Beginnings as First Day of Spring Dawns

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2012

At precisely 1:14 a.m. on March 20, the sun passed directly over the equator, marking the vernal equinox and the start of spring...

Luminescent Double Beacons: Jupiter and Venus Cozy Up

ICTMN Staff

March 12, 2012

Having drawn closer and closer together and rendezvousing with the moon at the end of February, Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest objects in the sky, are putting on a show this ...

Apocalypse Now? Try Never: NASA Scientist Debunks the Doomsayers

ICTMN Staff

March 12, 2012

Dragging from the loss of that hour to Daylight Savings Time? Apocalyptic predictions bringing you down? Never fear. NASA is here to help...

Solar Bombardment Under Way, Milder Than Feared; Northern Lights Set to Glow

ICTMN Staff

March 08, 2012

The geomagnetic storm unleashed by the sun’s coronal mass ejections (CME) of a few days ago was helping Mother Earth celebrate International Women’s Day on Thursday afternoon March...

Mother Earth Socked With Solar Storm; Will Jazz Aurora, May Disrupt Grid

ICTMN Staff

March 07, 2012

The sun has unleashed a solar flare of the magnitude that glanced off Earth’s northern magnetic pole in late January, NASA scientists say—only this one is headed straight toward us...