Articles tagged "Sun"

To sonify is to make beauty available to our human senses through sound. And, through the work of artist and NASA fellow Robert Alexander, it's also a means to discovery.

A team of geologists and astronomers at Ohio State University might have figured out how to increase the odds of finding a habitable world.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is currently gathering data while in hibernation. Talk about productive.

Astronomers found a planet that's shrinking by the day.

Ones and Zeros is Motherboard’s weekly investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet.

Scientists are starting to think that the Sun is the root of all life.

_A brain in a petri dish has a longer attention span than--oh, look a coronal mass ejection_ h3. ONE: Incredible Solar Blast Video ("NASA":http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News060711-blast.html) h3. ZERO: Lady Tattoos 152 profile…

Like the Eames' "Powers of Ten":http://www.powersof10.com on meth (and slightly more educational), _The Known Universe_ takes you from the earth to the far reaches of time and space, mapping every known satellite, star and galaxy all the way out to "…

While looking for a new desktop background at NASA's wonderfully nerdy and fiendishly hyperlinked "Astronomy Picture of the Day":http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110307.html, I stumbled upon this, courtesy of the "Solar Dynamic Observatory":http://motherb…

Just as the STEREO spacecraft return "the first 3D images of the Sun":http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/main/index.html, NASA's Goddard Space Center made this condensed history of how humans have stared at our star over time, from Stonehenge t…