Astronomy (Page 9)

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

Sun Whips Solar System Into Shape With 500,000-Mile Plasma Filament

ICTMN Staff

August 18, 2012

The sun is full of surprises: In what is perhaps a display of the feistiness that is destined to increase over the next couple of years until peaking in 2013–14 , it recently launc...

Support Is Needed to Save Black Hills Sacred Site

Gale Courey Toensing

August 18, 2012

Each spring since time immemorial, Lakota people have visited their sacred places in South Dakota’s Black Hills—P

Perseid Meteor Shower: The One Not To Miss, August 11-13

ICTMN Staff

August 11, 2012

Word on the street: If you see no other meteor shower this year, make it this one...

August Bracketed by Two Full Moons, One of Them Blue

ICTMN Staff

August 01, 2012

Ever mention something that happens “once in a blue moon”? Well brace yourselves—that moon will be here at the end of the month. Tonight, August 1, is the month’s first full moon...

Geomagnetic Storms, Southern Aurora: What Feisty Solar Maximum Has in Store

ICTMN Staff

July 28, 2012

The major solar storms and resulting auroras of mid-July are but a taste of things to come as the sun reaches its maximum level of outbursts in its cycle...

Peering Back in Time at Fledgling Galaxies: Video

ICTMN Staff

July 22, 2012

In terms of discoveries, astronomers could well call this the year of the galaxy, so many celestial surprises are they stumbling across as they peer at the farthest reaches of the ...

Greenland's Petermann Glacier Sheds 46-Square-Mile Chunk Into Arctic Ocean

ICTMN Staff

July 18, 2012

The long-predicted latest break in Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has finally come to pass, with an ice chunk the size of two Manhattan Islands shearing off into the ocean on Monday...