Live Chrysalis: 13 days
Chrysalis: Day 13 A live caterpillar chrysalis after 13 days of growth. Tracheal system (blue), digestive tract (red and yellow).
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Chrysalis: Day 1 A live caterpillar chrysalis after one day of growth. Tracheal system (blue), digestive tract (red).
View ArticleThree Solar Flares (Video)
Three X-class flares. Video is a composite of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. thesuntoday/YouTube
View ArticleX3.2 Coronal Mass Ejection
Observed by the SOHO/LASCO C2 instrument. The Sun Today, Facebook
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Space Weather Research Center has estimated that the third coronal mass ejection will merge with CMEs associated with the two previous X-flares (X1.7 and X2) and may...
View ArticleX-Flares (Video)
On May 12-13, 2013, the sun erupted with an X1.7-class and an X2.8-class flare, as well as two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, off the upper left side of the sun. Solar material also danced and blew...
View ArticleMay 14, 2013
Flames of the Sun A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured...
View ArticleHabitable Super-Earths
Habitable Super-Earths One of Kepler's last major discoveries before its hardware malfunction was also one of its greatest. Not one, not two, but three exoplanets in the habitable zone, the area around...
View ArticleSmallest Exoplanet
Smallest Exoplanet Shattering all records, Kepler found an exoplanet just barely bigger than the Earth's moon in February 2013. Kepler-37b was half as small as the previous title-holders and may be one...
View ArticleMay 15, 2013
Galaxy, Straight Ahead Here is a picture of the very thin disk ("line") of NGC 891. This image was acquired using the Schulman 0.8m telescope. As is often the case, the famous targets must be...
View ArticleMay 16, 2013
Close-Up Mars Skin Polygons are of great interest because they often indicate the presence of shallow ice or of desiccation such as in a mud flat. However, nature sometimes seems too clever for us....
View ArticleMay 17, 2013
Two Views of Iapetus These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon. The left-hand panel shows the moon's leading hemisphere and...
View ArticleMay 18, 2013
Galactic Wheels How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just...
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