by rmil2k | Jan 3, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Full Moon taken from Madison, Alabama on October 22, 2010. Credit: Gregory H. Revera (Wikimedia Commons) For millennia, Full Moons have wielded a magnetic charm. This monthly event has been the inspiration behind myths, tales, traditions, and even farming....
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
[ad_1] While many of us were celebrating the end of 2023 and the coming of 2024, the Sun was having its own celebration blasting an X5.0 flare from sunspot region 3536. Records show this to be the most powerful flare seen since 10 September 2017 when an X8.2 flare...
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Enabling & Support 02/01/2024 763 views 39 likes Through exquisite, millimetre-scale, formation flying, the dual satellites making up ESA’s Proba-3 will accomplish what was previously a space mission impossible: cast a precisely held shadow from one...
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
[ad_1] The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak this week and could bring up to 120 shooting stars per hour to the night sky.It has the potential to be the strongest meteor shower of 2024, according to the American Meteor Society, but with such a short peak — just six...
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Credit: Douglas J. Struble If your observing site is dark and you have access to at least a 14-inch telescope, do yourself a favor and target the Hercules Galaxy Cluster. Its main official designation is Abell 2151, a member of a catalog of 2,712 rich northern...
