Tag Archives: sun

  • Health / News sunscreen

    FDA lays out new requirements for sunscreen labels

    The FDA hopes new labels will make it easier for consumers to choose the best products to protect against the sun.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog 943378_509129302467631_419202639_n

    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 NASA SDO

    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.

  • Weather / Weather Blog sun

    Great video of a burst on the sun

    A coronal mass ejection erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1

  • News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog Sun

    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.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog NASA

    NASA expects a double-peaked Solar Max cycle

    2013 is supposed to be the year of Solar Max, but solar activity is much lower than expected. At least one leading forecaster expects the sun to rebound with a double-peaked maximum later this year.

  • News

    Google takes you into orbit with the click of a button

    Google is working on a way to send you into space, sort of.

  • Weather / Weather Blog SunXray

    NASA TIME-LAPSE: The X-Ray Sun over 5.5 years

    Watch this time-lapse of the Sun from its solar minimum to nearing its solar maximum now.

  • News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog Project 1640

    Advanced telescope imaging system searches for other suns and orbiting planets

    Telescope spots a star 1.5 times larger than our Sun.

  • News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog SolarFlareJuly2

    Solar fireworks spotted by NASA

    Pre-Independence Day solar flare viewed from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

  • Health / News

    Living in sunny cities may be beneficial to your health

    The amount of sunlight where you live may affect your risk of cancer

  • Health / Offbeat

    Sun worshippers could have a health condition; Tanorexia

    To tan or not to tan? Dermatologists say that’s NOT the question.