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Election Security Risks?
Platohagel: If an election were to take place, and computers are used to tabulate votes, could these computers be broke into to increase fake votes for a candidate? It has been with some consternation that security concerns around a voting process in the United States had been voiced at some length, and some libelled had…
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Space Weather Now
2012-09-03 15:14 UTC G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm in Progress G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storming is ongoing now as a result of the coronal mass ejection (CME) arrival associated with the August 31st filament eruption. Continued geomagnetic storming is expected in the near term as the CME continues to affect Earth. Solar radiation storm levels continue to hover near…
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Radiation Belt Storms Probes Launched
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SaKPuocRA%5D NASA hosted a two-day event for 50 social media followers on August 22-23, 2012, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) are scheduled to lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 4:08 a.m. on August 23. Designed for a two-year primary science…
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Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)
The launch of an Atlas V carrying NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) payload was scrubbed today due to weather conditions associated with lightning, as well as cumulus and anvil clouds. With the unfavorable weather forecast as a result of Tropical Storm Isaac, the leadership team has decided to roll the Atlas V vehicle back…
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Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres
With the discovery of sound waves in the CMB, we have entered a new era of precision cosmology in which we can begin to talk with certainty about the origin of structure and the content of matter and energy in the universe.-Wayne Hu The Pythagoreans 2500 years ago believed in a celestial “music of the…
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Comet LoveJoy
Comet Lovejoy seen by SOHO “On average, new Kreutz-group comets are discovered every few days by SOHO, but from the ground they are much rarer to see or discover,” says Karl Battams, Naval Research Laboratory, who curates the Sun-grazing comets webpage. See Also: The beginning of the end for comet Lovejoy One instrument watching for…
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Space Weather: Wind in Space
An X1.9 Flare at 2011 Nov 03 2027 UT! Full SDO cadence (12 sec) movie of the M2.5 flare and associated CME from June 7,2011; composite of AIA wavelengths 211 (red channel), 193 (green), and 171 (blue); 05:00–13:00UTC; 2400 frames (300 frames per hour). Images are rotated 90 degrees for a normal aspect ratio.…
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Solar Weather
Sunspot 1283 Bristling With Flares: An X1.8 and An M6.7 – UPDATED 09.08.11 The Sun as viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in 193 angstrom. The verticle black area near the center is the coronal hole. Credit: NASA/SDO › View larger UPDATE: 09.09.11 – A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress following the…
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Solar Dynamics Observatory Pick of the Week
(Click on Image for Larger Veiwing) Then and Now A side-by-side comparison of the Sun from precisely two years ago (left, from SOHO) to the present (right, from Solar Dynamics Observatory) dramatically illustrates just how active the Sun has become (Mar. 27-28, 2011). Viewed in two similar wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, the Sun now…
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Concepts Fade to Moments
Relativity, by M. C. Escher. Lithograph, 1953. Source: Official M.C. Escher website. Of course I struggle “with” as to be free and in liberation of, as if to liberate oneself from all the constraints that we have applied to our circumstance, “by choice.” Can this be done? Can a human being actually float and defy…
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Solar Dynamics Observatory
