Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge

Voyager near edge of interstellar space Source NASA – WASHINGTON — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from…

SETI Array searching for life in habitable zone

SETI search now focused on stars with planets The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is once again back on. Last April SETI had to turn off their equipment due to…

Kepler finds planet within the Habitable Zone!

First planet in zone that could support life found (Source – NASA): This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet…

Phobos Grunt status redirect

Redirect to current status

SDO sees solar breakaway prominence end

Source – NASA – A long, solar prominence that rotated into view almost two weeks ago finally became disorganized and broke away into space forming a nifty large loop as…

NASA VIIRS First light image

VIIRS Opens Doors GREENBELT, Md. — The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first measurements on Nov. 21, 2011. This high-resolution image…

DIY Solar Collector

This is a great DIY Solar water heater project. Solar water heat may not be a sexy as solar electricity but it produces a lot more energy savings for the…