• Global 10-day Fire Map: June 20 – 29, 2013

    The fire map bellow accumulates the locations of the fires detected by MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period, from June 20  – June 29, 2013. Each colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during

  • July 2013 Night Sky – Planets and constellations guide

    See when to see the planets, as well as constellations in the night sky and meteor showers, in July 2013 in this skywatching video guides.

    ​July Night Sky: See Planets & Constellations

    Morning Planets, Meteor Shower Grace 

    July 2013

  • Strong G3 geomagnetic storm in progress (June 29, 2013)

    As Earth passes through a new coronal hole high speed stream, backed by unidentified CME shock, a prolonged interval of south-pointing magnetism (southward Bz) is having a strong impact on Earth's geomagnetic field. On June 29, 2013 Planetary K-index

  • New tropical cyclone forming in Eastern Pacific

    Shower activity associated with an area of low pressure centered about 500 miles SSW of Acapulco, Mexico has become better organized during June 28, 2013. Upper-level winds have become favorable for additional development and tropical depression could form during the

  • Tropical Storm Rumbia (Gorio) to make landfall in Philippines

    Tropical depression that formed east of Philippines on June 27, 2013 became Tropical Storm 06W and was named Rumbia. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has given the tropical depression the name

  • Weak CME impact and filament channel eruption on the Sun

    An interplanetary shock wave hit our planet's geomagnetic field on June 27, 2013 at approximately 14:20 UTC. Geomagnetic Sudden Impulse was registered at 14:40 UTC. The impact was relatively weak and has not caused a geomagnetic storming so far.

  • Global 10-day Fire Map: June 10 – 19, 2013

    This fire map bellow accumulates the locations of the fires detected by MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period, from June 10 – June 19, 2013. Each colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during the

  • Smoke plumes from North American wildfires over Spain

    Massive wildfires in US and Canada produced smoke plumes that drifted over the Atlantic Ocean and reached Europe in late June 2013. MODIS satellite imagery shows smoke plumes hovering over Spain and the western Mediterranean Sea on June 26-27,

  • Timelapse of a supercell near Booker, Texas

    After four years of searching for perfect supercell in the Central Plains, photographer Mike Olbinski from Arizona and his friend Andy Hoeland captured an amazing rotating supercell near Booker, Texas. Rotating clouds looking like