Ok, have a look at this image — if you click on it, it gets really, really big: That's our Milky Way. The image below here represents the material within the white square on the left — a star-forming region called G305 to astronomers and astrophysicists — again, a click makes it bigger: That cutaway [...]
Read More Astrophysics, celestial bodies, G305, Milky Way, stars, UKIRT, University of Edinburgh, VISTAAt the beginning of March 2012, we had a few days' worth of pretty major solar activity — does anyone remember this? This storm produced some pretty incredible Auroras Borealis and Australis for days before and after the big CME from the Sun. CME means coronal mass ejection, which is a huge burst of solar [...]
Read More Astrology, aurora australis, aurora borealis, CME, coronal mass ejection, Dark Rift, Knowing, Milky Way, NASA, Nicolas Cage, solar flare, space weather