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Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the
New activity/unrest was observed at 3 volcanoes from March 19 – 25, 2014. Ongoing activity was observed at 15 volcanoes.
New activity/unrest: | Copahue, Central Chile-Argentina | Fuego, Guatemala | Ubinas, Perú
Ongoing activity: | Aira,
New Japanese island that emerged as a result of underwater volcano eruption on November 21, 2013 and merged with nearby Nishino-shima island on December 25, 2013 continues to grow.
Activity has increased at Guatemalan Fuego volcano over the last couple of days, INSIVUMEH reports. The number of explosions rose to 8 – 14 per hour and the strongest ones produce ash plumes rising more than 1 km above the summit, drifting
Strong and deep earthquake registered as M 6.5 struck south of the Fiji Islands on March 26, 2014 at 03:29 UTC. Such earthquakes are common in this area, but this was the strongest one in last 30 days.
USGS is reporting depth of 493.1 km (306.4 miles),
A geomagnetic sudden impulse, indicating the arrival of the March 23 CME, was observed at the Hartland magnetometer (23 nT) at 20:09 UTC on March 25.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at unsettled to active levels (below G1-Minor) early on March 26 as CME
Active region 2014 (S14E20, Dsc/beta-gamma) produced a long duration C5 solar flare on March 23, 2014 at 03:48 UTC. This flare lasted several hours and thus produced energy equivalent to much stronger flares. A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) associated with this event…
A major landslide caused by recent heavy rain destroyed six houses and covered a road near the town of Oso on Saturday, about 90 km (55 miles) north of Seatle in the north-western American state of Washington. 43 people have been killed. Authorities said landslide…
Chile is currently enduring a swarm of strong earthquakes off the coast of Tarapaca. This phase started on March 15, 2014 with M 4.7 at depth of 9.6 km, followed by very strong M 6.7 on March 16 which was initially reported as M 7.0.
Since then, and
Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic. The star-studded panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space
