• Mount Etna erupts – lava fountains up to 800 meters

    Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted again, less than a week from it's last eruption. In the morning of November 23, 2013 the 17th paroxysmal eruptive episode occurred at the cinder cone east of Etna's Southeast Crater. Continuous

  • Comet ISON entered STEREO Ahead HI1 field of view

    Comet ISON entered STEREO Ahead HI1 field of view. First image was taken at 21:34 UTC on November 20, 2013. Both STEREO spacecraft will have a view of the comet in the COR1 and COR2 coronagraphs in the hours around closest approach on November 28.

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  • New island emerged off the coast of Tokyo, Bonin Islands

    A new island has emerged off the coast of Tokyo on October 20, 2013, as a result of underwater volcano eruption.

    Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the island is about 200 meters (660 feet) in diameter. The island emerged 1 000

  • Auroral Tempest – Time-lapse video by InFocus Imagery

    This time-lapse was captured on the morning of November 11, 2013. It is suspected that two CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) on November 8th and 10th from two separate X-class solar flares combined to form one cloud of plasma. The interaction of this energy with

  • German scientists discover bacteria that make ice, clouds and rain

    Scientists have discovered that a humble species of bacteria may play a major role in producing planetary climates by "seeding" clouds with ice-producing proteins.

    Scientists have known for decades that bacterial species such as Pseudomonas

  • Night sky guide for November 2013

    November 3, Hybrid Solar Eclipse. Annular total solar eclipse will sweep over the Atlantic Ocean and the middle of Africa on November 3, 2013. The eclipse will be total only along a narrow path over the Atlantic Ocean and equatorial Africa from