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Big Bear Solar Observatory Snaps Highly Detailed Sun Spot Image

Highest resolution image ever captured of a sun spot.  The brand spanking new image is of a section of the Sun only 50 miles across. Amazing how it almost looks alive. The Big Bear Observatory is a precursor to an even larger solar telescope being constructed. Look forward to even more detail images in the [...]

New Solar System Yields Exciting Discovery

Scientists have long been using the wobble method for searching for stars with orbiting planets. This method involves searching for the slight wobble caused in by the gravitational pull of orbiting planets. A new discovery using this method is proving exciting for several reasons. It is the largest find of exo-planets since the first discovery [...]

Astroid Defense – Our Best Options for Defending the Planet

Nope, it’s not a remake of the classic video game or the next Sci-Fi SyFy TV movie.  The possibility of an astroid striking the Earth is a very real possibility.  Recently a large astroid passed with in 50,000 miles of Earth.  Given the vastness of space, that distance is almost too close for comfort.  The problem [...]

Satellites Collide in First Ever Major Mid-Space Collision [UPDATED]

In has been reported as an unprecedented event, two satellites recently collided in orbit, producing a large debris cloud. According to spaceflightnow, “a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today.” U.S. STRATCOM which tracks thousands of objects [...]

It Came From Planet X

Alright, I admit it, the chances of meeting a creature from a Planet X is slim to none. However, the possibility of there being an actual Planet X, a planet that we have yet to find in our solar system is very real.

Forecasting Space Weather

The weather in space today will be extremely cold with a chance of solar storms.  Dress accordingly.  While most of us don’t have to worry about dressing for those conditions just yet, the effects of solar storms can be felt everywhere.  A year ago the National Academies help a public workshop to discuss the challenges [...]

New Theory on Universal Radio Signals

First primitive stars may have contributed to the universal hum we now can detect though out space.  While  this is still just a theory, it could explain what these radio waves are and what it causing them.  Other theories include, high energy bursts from back holes.  Previously all that was know about these signals was that something was generating a [...]

The “Pit Stop” decent concept

One of the primary challenges faced by our space programs is ensure that spacecraft, maned or unmanned land safely back on earth or on their destination planet.  We’ve seen some creative and successful methods such as the bouncing landing of the Mars rovers. This new concept described as a literally a “pit stop”, would use a large tube that [...]

Apollo 14 Astronaut claims they walk among us

According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, there have been many visits by to Earth by aliens and each time it was covered up by our government.  He describes them as the the traditional ‘grey’ alien.  Small in stature, greyish skin and large eyes.  Naturally NASA denies that it has anything to do with communicating aliens, looking for aliens or [...]

Possibility of life on Iapetus

Saturn’s moon Iapetus has recently come under some scrutiny from the scientific community. New images from the Cassini-Huygens probe seem to show dark splotches of organic mater on the surface of the moon. Unfortunately the article in question seems to be not written by somebody with a scientific background and gives little detail or scientific [...]