Blue-Flame Plasma on the Face of the Sun

From NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. This video takes images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and applies additional processing to enhance the structures that are visible. The result is a beautiful, [...]

Mars Opportunity Discoveries @ 8 Years

The Mars rover Opportunity was supposed to last three months. It’s now going on Nine Years. It’s proved so durable that in 2011 it was essentially sent on a whole [...]

Einstein’s Greatest Blunder

Excerpt from “Mysteries of a Dark Universe.” Albert Einstein sought to explain why the gravity of all the stars and gas out there didnt simply cause the universe to collapse [...]

The Great Solar Mag Flip

From NASA Heliophysics. The number of sunspots increases and decreases over time in a regular, approximately 11-year cycle, called the sunspot cycle. The exact length of the cycle can vary. [...]

Strange Magnetic Bubbles at the Edge of the Solar

A gem from NASA Heliophysics and the Science Visualization Studio. The sun’s magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated [...]