Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 15, 2017
Cassini has crashed into Saturn today on September 15. Here are some of the spectacular images that it captured during it’s journey.
Cassini has crashed into Saturn today on September 15. Here are some of the spectacular images that it captured during it’s journey.
The sun blasted out seven massive solar flares in as many days in an extraordinary period of space weather that has sparked stunning geomagnetic storms above the earth.

Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black.

Cassini is making it’s final moments to its journey to Saturn. NASA is giving an indepth tour of its decent. Come join in on the final countdown.

On Sept. 10th, departing sunspot AR2673 erupted, producing a powerful X8-class solar flare. The explosion propelled a CME into space and accelerated a swarm of energetic protons toward Earth. Both are visible in this coronagraph movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO): The many specks in this movie are not stars–they are solar protons

If you still have your solar viewing glasses from the eclipse, now is a good time to slap them on and look up at the sun.

The Rosetta space probe discovered a large amount of organic material in the nucleus of comet ‘Chury.’

They’re looking for remnants of the fireball that burned up over their province this past weekend.

On Sept. 6th at 1202 UT, sunspot AR2673 unleashed a major X9.3-class solar flare–the strongest solar flare in more than a decade. X-rays and UV radiation from the blast ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a strong shortwave radio blackout over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean: Link to blackout map. Above: The extreme

People as far south as Ohio and Indiana may be able to see the northern lights tonight (Sept. 6), thanks to a powerful sun storm.



