Breathtaking New Images of the SUN

Don’t miss these images in 1080p, from the big CME on June 7, 2011. These unbelievable new images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory would have seemed impossible just a short [...]

Big Solar Eruption, Detail from STEREO spacecraft

The Sun erupted on March 19, 2010 in a coronal mass ejection. The STEREO A satellite captured it from one side, revealing huge loops of plasma blasting off the Sun’s [...]

Solar Tsunami

Excerpt from “Attack of the Sun.” The SOHO spacecraft has recorded the effect of all this rising energy. Its ultraviolet sensors show a wavy pattern of gas on the sun’s [...]

Imagining Extrasolar Planets

From the Spitzer Science Center. While astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they’re all too small and distant to fill even a single pixel in our most [...]

The Infinite Monkey Theorem… in 1080p

For those who haven’t seen “Is the Universe Infinite?”, here’s a re-enactment of the famous paradox known as the “infinite monkey theorem.”