Posts tagged as: Sun

World won’t end on December 21, 2012

You must have heard about the doomsday theory as how a rogue planet is going to crash into Earth on Friday (December 21, 2012) and kill us all?   Some people are fascinated, and sometimes frightened, by rumors of the Mayan end-of-the-world myth. According to the urban legend, the world will end when the Mayan […]

Eye warning for sky gazers

Eye warning for sky gazers Sky gazers hoping to witness next week’s transit of Venus are being warned not to look directly at the sun with the naked eye. The rare event will be visible in New Zealand from 10.15am to 4.43pm on Wednesday, but the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind is urging […]

NASA continues to monitor solar flares this week

On March 8, 2012 at 10:53 P.M EST, the sun erupted with an M6.3 class flare which released a CME about an hour later. Apart from the rising geomagnetic storm conditions, the active region 1429 has produced two X class flares and many M-class flares. The NASA Space Weather Center models show that the CME […]

Global Warming and its effects on earth

Global Warming and its effects on earth The ‘earth’ is the only known planet where life exists as it is compatible to the requirements of living creatures. However, it also gets effects from other planets and the most important planet is Sun, which is also a pivot, around which earth revolves. Sun throws its rays […]

Cygnus X-1: A black hole whose mystery is finally unravelled

Cygnus X-1: A black hole whose mystery is finally unravelled For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to produce a complete description of a black hole. A black hole is concentration of mass that is so dense, even light can’t escape its powerful gravitational pull. Using several telescopes, both ground-based and in […]

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