Posts Tagged ‘space’

As scientists have already warned us, huge solar storm hit Earth's atmosphere today. A few of extraordinary massive eruptions of the plasma on Sun's surface have reached Earth today and thanks to that increased solar activity, residents in some areas of North America were able to see aurora lights in the sky. NASA has announced that there were four strong eruptions on Sun which were directed ... Full story

40th anniversary of the marking of Earth Day is to be celebrated on April 22 this year and it seems that the celebration could be followed by some 'natural fireworks' too. Scientists expect to see the Lyrid meteor shower from April 16 to April 25. They claim that behavior of this meteor shower is pretty unpredictable. Lyrid shower is capable to 'produce' from 10 to 90 ... Full story

Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese aeronautical engineer who is currently a part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Expedition 22 to the International Space Station and it seems that he is one of the first scientists who got an excellent idea to share what he sees from space with internet users. Soichi recently started tweeting from the space and he decided to show ... Full story

Company Virgin Galactic unveiled the World's first commercial spaceship that will be used for touristic flights into space. Virgin Galactic is planning to offer unique experience to bilionaires who are searching for exciting vacation. First commercial passenger spaceship called SpaceShipTwo is presented to public on December 7, in Moyave, California. Image credits... Full story