An M-class solar flare erupted on October 8, 2012 at 11:17 UTC. The event started at 11:05, peaked at 11:17 and ended at 11:23 UTC. The source of this flare is probably a new region on Sun’s northeastern limb rotating into Earth’s view. Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)
The annual Draconid meteor shower will peak overnight on October 7 and 8. Last quarter Moon on October 8 makes this quite a favourable year, as the Moon rises in late evening for the many northern hemisphere locations from where the Draconid radiant is circumpolar.
M.P.E.C. reported the discovery of the Asteroid 2012 TV on October 6, 2012. Asteroid was magnitude 17.6 when was discovered by team from Tenagra II Observatory.According to Remanzacco Observatory, Asteroid 2012 TV has an estimated size of 24 m – 55 m (H=25.1).
A long duration B7.5 solar flare was observed at 07:30 UTC on October 5. Post eruption loop structures were observed in GOES SXI imagery in the vicinity of Region 1584. A partial halo CME was first observed in SOHO/LASCO C3 imagery at 07:30 UTC and STEREO Ahead
NASA’s Swift satellite has discovered a stellar-mass black hole toward center of our Milky way galaxy. With its advantageous X-rays detection ability, Swift found a rare Nova as a result of high energy X-ray outburst in mid-September; leading to discovery of black
NASA’s Spitzer space telescope’s latest achievement is most precise measurement of universe’s expansion rate, also known as Hubble constant. As per JPL’s press release, it improves by a factor of 3 on a similar, seminal study from the Hubble telescope and brings the
Have you ever wondered why you look up and see a dark sky at night? The Minute Physics have created another great video explaining why the sky is dark at night. Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) on Sept. 24 said it has moved a spare geostationary weather satellite, GOES-14, into position to replace the GOES-13 satellite that suffered an unexplained outage Sept. 23 that engineers have been unable to
Sunspot 1583 on the western limb produced an M1.3 flare on Sept. 30 at 04:33 UTC. Region 1583 had grown rapidly in the past 24 hours, however it is only hours away from rotating off the solar disk and out of view. SIDC and NOAA/SWPC expect mostly eruptive conditions
Planetary astrophotographer Mike Phillips made amazing 8 second video of Jupiter. Mike filmed Jupiter through his home-made f/4.5 14″ Newtonian telescope for a consecutive 1.5 hours on September 12, 2012. He batched up groups of frames, stacked them together (to
