What's up in space? QUIET SUN - JUMP (Video) - NAMIBIA FLYBY (ISS / STS - 134)
QUIET SUN: Solar activity is very low, with no strong flares or geomagnetic storms expected for the next three days.
JUMP: Solar activity may be low, but it's not zero. Just look at what happened on May 20th. An enormous filament of hot plasma and magnetism reared up from the edge of the sun and .... (click on the image)
...it jumped! The magnificent leap spanned more than 200,000 km of fiery starscape. This is the sort of thing that happens routinely when a 1027ton nuclear explosion (a star) is "quiet." Stay tuned.
More Images: from P-M Heden of Vallentuna, Sweden; from Maximilian Teodorescuof Bucharest, Romania; from Christian Viladrich of Jongieux - France; from Robert Arnold of Isle of Skye, Scotland; from Peter Desypris of Athens,Greece; from Fabrizio Barbaglia of Cecima, Italy;
NAMIBIA FLYBY: Last night the International Space Station with shuttle Endeavour docked alongside flew over Namibia--and right by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Photographer George Tucker recorded the southern hemisphere encounter from Namibia's Sossusvlei Desert Lodge:
"It was a beautiful view in crystal-clear desert skies," says Tucker. "Orion is partially hidden by the telescope and the LMC is the fuzzy object on the left."
This kind of scene is repeating itself around the world. Docked together, Endeavour and ISS are brighter than any star in the sky, and they look beautiful even without the decoration of nearby galaxies.
More Images: from Oleg Toumilovitch of Blairgowrie, Randburg, South Africa
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