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Experts say solar maximum is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auroras than we have experienced in quite some time.The source of the
According to USGS a 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit offshore Northern California on July 21, 2012 at 1:52 UTC. Recorded depth was 10 km and epicenter located 108 km (67 miles) W (274°) from Petrolia, CA at 40.382°N,
Strong and shallow earthquake with recorded magnitude of 5.8 hit off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand on July 21, 2012 at 4:54 UTC. Magnitude of 5.8 was confirmed by GeoNet, EMSC and USGS. GeoNet is reporting depth of 12km, EMSC 10km and USGS 20 km.
First images from High Resolution Coronal Imager or Hi-C launched last week just started coming in.Hi-C telescope was launched on July 11, 2012 aboard a NASA sounding rocket and has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree
A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) this week. Once installed, the system will be directed by
July 20th did not start so well for Kuril Islands. On July 15 we reported swarm of earthquakes on Kuril Island for seventh day in a row (link here), while it showed less activity for last couple of days today we had 5 strong ones again. The strongest one was reported
New unrest has been noticed around 3 volcanoes, ongoing activity was reported for 12 volcanoes. This report covers active volcanoes in the world recorded from July 11 – July 17, 2012 based on Smithsonian/USGS criteria.CUMBALColombia 0.95°N, 77.87°W; summit
Region 1520 is still very active and located on the western limb. Latest event from this Sunspot started on July 19, 2012 at 05:13 and peaked at 5:58 UTC at M7.7. It looks like strong CME was released but since 1520 is located on the western limb it was not be Earth
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. The exoplanet candidate, called UCF-1.01, is located a mere 33 light-years away, making it possibly the nearest world to our solar system that is
The concept of Electric Universe and its main ingredient – Plasma is not new but it looks like now it might get better attention finally. Let’s go back in history for just a moment then come back to where we are now and introduce new NASA space mission RBSP – Radiation
