Tag Archives: NASA

• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  UPDATE: Three X-class solar flares in 24 hours, with a fourth Tuesday night!

  These strongest solar flares of the year were not directed at Earth.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  Sun emits its biggest flare of 2013, the expected peak of this solar cycle

  The Sun expelled its biggest solar flare of the year Sunday night.
• News / Weather Blog / Weather

  Space show: sunset “planet triangle” at the end of May

  The three brightest planets in this month’s night sky are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
• Virginia This Morning

  VIRGINIA THIS MORNING: Wallops Island

  On April 21st, Antares became the biggest rocket ever launched here in the Commonwealth.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  Carbon Dioxide milestone: full day at 400 ppm

  This is the first time in the human record the carbon dioxide concentration is this high.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  Phoning home: satellite cell phone project a success

  Rocket launched from Virginia’s Wallops Island in April carried smartphones into orbit to send data back to Earth and take pictures.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  What’s up in the May 2013 night sky

  Spot popular astronomical sights this month including nebulae, a galaxy trio and the site of a recent planetary discovery.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  VIDEO: Gigantic hurricane spotted on Saturn

  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has spotted a gigantic hurricane swirling inside a mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as “the hexagon” on Saturn.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  Exceptional Full Moon & Saturn viewing tonight!

  Tonight, look for the Full Moon with bright Saturn very close to it in our night sky.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  NASA: Hubble sees Comet ISON

  Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope has a sneak preview.
• News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog

  VIRAL: Watch three years of Sun in three minutes

  NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle.
• Photo Galleries

  PHOTOS: Rocket blasts off from Eastern Shore

  Click here to check out the pics.