• Comet ISON vs The Sun – Updates

    ​Latest updates:

    December 2, 2013

    13:45 UTC

    Comet ISON's November adventures video by Sun Whisperers

    13:43 UTC

    Latest CIOC update: In Memoriam: "…Never one to follow convention, ISON lived a dynamic and unpredictable life,

  • Space-based solar observatories ready for Comet ISON

    Comet ISON will pass through the Sun's atmosphere at just about 1.2 million km (730 000 miles) above the solar surface on November 28, 2013 at 18:44 UTC.

    It is now entering the fields of view of space-based solar observatories and will be viewed first

  • 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.

    You can examine

  • 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