Showing posts with label cool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cool. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Observing a Gigantic Solar Eruption
From EIGN co-founder Pete:
"This is the sun, I'm floored. What year do we live in?"
Monday, June 2, 2014
Mega-Earth Found. Yes, Another One...
File this under "Cool"...
"You can add to the growing list of “exoplanets” a huge, dense, surprisingly rocky world with 17 times the mass of Earth. Discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope ... this new planet, officially named Kepler-10c, scrambles the equations that dictate how massive a rocky planet can be without ballooning into a Jupiter-like gas giant." (washington post)
[Ed. note: We're pretty sure that picture is not of the new planet.]
"You can add to the growing list of “exoplanets” a huge, dense, surprisingly rocky world with 17 times the mass of Earth. Discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope ... this new planet, officially named Kepler-10c, scrambles the equations that dictate how massive a rocky planet can be without ballooning into a Jupiter-like gas giant." (washington post)
[Ed. note: We're pretty sure that picture is not of the new planet.]
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