It is July. And very hot today. I probably shouldn’t be surprised that the Sun is out and making me warm, but it is horrible. That is all.
NASA‘s latest space telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is delivering unprecedented images of our local star. The telescope was launched Feb. 11. NASA released the first tremendously exciting data from the mission today. “These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research,” said Richard […]
Simply wonderful. I can’t put it better than the original article, below. This picture was taken by Soichi Noguchi looking out of the newly installed ISS cupola, which provides dramatic vistas of space from inside the station. You can see the Soyuz module that carried astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson on board- incidentally, with Discovery on […]