A rather large solar flare occurred on February 14th, which signals the beginning of cycle of flares that will reach its peak, called a solar maximum, in about two years. How bad can they get? The worst solar flare on re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/08/the-danger-of-a-solar-storm/It looks like a crystal ball, which it is, but thi... ...a 19th century invention to record the amount of sunshine , called the Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder. It was invented in 1853 by the Scottis... ...sphere would be placed in to a wooden bowl. The sun would burn a t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/28/the-campbell-stokes-sunshine-recorder/(YouTube link) Today, for the first time in h... ...first time in history, humans can see the entire sun . In October 2006, NASA launched a pair of twin s... ...he other behind the Earth in its orbit around the Sun . The goal was to get a wide, stereoscopic view of... ...goal was to get a wide, stereoscop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/06/the-whole-sun/Eric Jacqmain covered an ordinary fiberglass satel... ...dirt into lava" with the intensity of 5,000 suns .Archimedes would've been proud! Hit play or go to... ...e]Previously on Neatorama: Melting Steel With The Sun
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/homemade-solar-death-ray/Astrophotographer Thierry Legault (featured pr... ...he got it! Not only is the moon moving across the sun , but you can see other things in the picture (see... ...the link). The small spot towards the bottom is a sunspot twice the size of the earth, and toward the top i... ...cture of the station as it passe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/04/solar-eclipse-photograph-with-a-bonus-feature/Angeles Duran, a woman from Spain, has laid claim... ...Duran, a woman from Spain, has laid claim to the Sun . She argues that there's no international law to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/27/woman-claims-to-own-the-sun/Just your average smoggy day in Chin ... wait a mi... ...in Chin ... wait a minute! What's that? A triple sun ?On July 26th, the Chinese city of Leshan witnesse... ...orning if it was a UFO: What appeared to be three suns in the sky at once. Assuming this didn’t co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/04/triple-sun-over-china/How close could you get to the sun before burning up? Alessandra Calderin of Popula... ...Science asked NASA engineer Ralph McNutt: The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if... ...ng up. That said, an astronaut so close to the sun is way, way out of posi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/how-close-could-a-person-get-to-the-sun-and-survive/Video Link (Courtesy NASA/Berkeley) In this q... ...g spacecraft, a comet can be seen diving into the Sun 's lower atmosphere. The video above is a compi... ...llows for nearly full, continuous coverage of the sun , increasing the chance of witnessing something li... ...eeing comets and other small object...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/24/comet-dives-into-the-sun/Last week we showed you a video of the sun 's surface flaring up on March 30th. It was captur... ...il. Looks like things are really happening on our sun ! Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/29/solar-eruption-caught-on-video/
