SPACE WEATHER BALLOON DATA: Almost once a week, and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus fly space weather balloons to the stratosphere over California. "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distanceīetween Earth and the Moon. Made by Hallmark in the 1990s, the ornament comes with a greeting card showing the captain of the Enterprise in flight and telling the story of its trip to the stratosphere and back again.Īll sales support hands-on STEM education The students are selling Kirk ornaments to pay the helium bill for their cosmic ray ballooning program. Kirk to the stratosphere onboard a cosmic ray research balloon. On Oct 9, 2022, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus launched Capt. But you can get one from the Earth to Sky Store. WHERE NO CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT HAS GONE BEFORE: You cannot buy a rare Capt. Nicole is strengthening so there could be more sprites in the coming days." Here's where to look. Back in 2016, I captured a bunch of sprites in one of the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew. "By the way, the outer bands are the best places to look for sprites.
"This sprite appeared over one of the outer bands that was generating lots of lightning," says Lucna. Two days ago when the intensifying storm was passing Puerto Rico, Frankie Lucena pointed his cameras above the cloudtops and captured a sprite: SPRITES FROM HURRICANE NICOLE: Florida is bracing for the arrival of rare November Hurricane Nicole.
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Observers in the USA are favored this week with a series of bright passes in the pre-dawn sky. It's almost as bright as the planet Mars. In little more than 18 months, Tiangong has expanded from a small core barely able to fit a crew of three astronauts to a roomy, modern facility as large as Russia's Mir space station from the 1980s. He put together a composite of photos he has taken to show its rapid growth: Smith has been monitoring Tiangong since China started building the space station in April 2021. "The space station has changed shape since I last saw it," says Smith. 8th, Tiangong flew over Manorville, New York, where amateur astronomer Philip Smith was waiting with his backyard telescope: Its addition almost doubled the volume of the station, giving China a major outpost in Earth orbit. 31st when an 18-meter lab module named Mengtian ("Dreaming of the Heavens") reached orbit. Solar flare alerts: SMS TextĬHINA'S SPACE STATION IS COMPLETE: China has just completed construction of the Tiangong space station. Any explosions today (NOAA says there is a 15% chance) will be geoeffective as the sunspot is directly facing Earth. Big sunspot AR3141 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that habors energy for strong M-class solar flares. QUIET WITH A CHANCE OF FLARES: Solar activiy is low, but the quiet could be short-lived. Neutron counts from the University of Oulu's Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory show that cosmic rays reaching Earth are slowly declining-a result of the yin-yang relationship between the solar cycle and cosmic rays. Credit: SDO/HMIĬosmic Rays Solar Cycle 25 is beginning, and this is reflected in the number of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere. Sunspot AR3141 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares.
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