In the giant system that connects Earth to the sun, one key event happens over and over: solar material streams toward Earth and the giant magnetic bubble around Earth, the magnetosphere helps keep it at bay. The parameters, however, change: The particles streaming in
In last 7 days new activity was observed at 6 volcanoes, ongoing activity was reported for 10 volcanoes. This report covers active volcanoes in the world from February 26 – March 4, 2014 based on Smithsonian/USGS criteria.
New
Aurora borealis is a normal event at high latitudes during geomagnetic storms but when they are seen as low as Slovenia (Zagarjev vrh, N46.03, E14.65) you know the event is rare and stunning for the observers. The following image was captured in Slovenia on
Comet C/2012 X1 LINEAR will reach its brightest this month and will be well placed for observation on March 4. An extremely rare event will take place on the morning of March 20 when asteroid 163 Erigone passes in front of the bright star Regulus in the
International, next-generation, unifying satellite observatory for global snow and rain measurements – Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory – was successfully launched yesterday from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan marking the beginning of a
Mexican CENAPRED counted 544 small to moderate emissions at Popocatepetl volcano during 24 hours between February 25 – 26, 2014.
An overflight made yesterday afternoon showed that the dome number 48 was destroyed by this activity leaving a funnel-shaped cavity
Newly numbered Active Region 1990 produced powerful X4.9 solar flare at 00:49 UTC on February 25, 2014, making it the third largest X-flare event of the current solar cycle. This decaying sunspot is in fact old returning region previously numbered as AR 1967. This is
In a paper published in Nature several months ago, Huntingford et al. (2013) write "there is considerable interest in determining whether global warming is increasing climate variability," due to the concerns of some scientists that an increase in
Operator of tsunami stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex said on Thursday, February 20, that roughly 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the tanks again.
According to the operator, a worker on patrol noticed water spilling from
Earth is currently under the influence of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storming has been observed. According to SWPC, this is likely the result of what was expected to be a near miss from an event originally observed on
