The Sun showed its Halloween spirit this week by putting on its best spooky jack-o’lantern face. The incredible image above was captured by NASA on October 8, 2014 and shows active regions on the sun combined to create the spooky image. The sun’s active regions, a storm of magnetic fields, appear brighter because they are…
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking faster than ever before
In any other circumstance, a huge, red, festering blemish would be a bad thing but not for the planet Jupiter. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a defining characteristic since man began looking at the stars through bamboo shoots. But that may be about to change. NASA says that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking…
Oh how cute! Saturn just made an itty-biddy baby moon (named “Peggy”)
NASA’s Curiosity rover captures odd shard of light bursting from surface of Mars
We’re not going to file this one under paranormal events just yet but still, it’s an interesting development. Eagle eyes have spotted an odd shard of light that seems to be erupting from the surface of Mars. Altered Dimensions verified that the photo is available on NASA’s website and has not been altered in any…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of an ocean of water underneath Saturn’s moon.
Scientists had long thought that Saturn’s moon Enceladus had an ocean of liquid water underneath its thick, icy surface (in 2004, NASA scientists saw water vapor and ice spewing from vents near the moon’s south pole). Today. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft revealed actual evidence that their guess was correct – an ocean lies hidden inside the…
North Korea’s new space agency logo says a lot – NADA
Uh oh. How come this map just released by NASA is glowing RED!!!
Saturn – the greatest planet (except for Uranus which is easier to work into jokes)
Like Jupiter, Saturn is a large, gaseous planet composed mostly of the gases hydrogen and helium. Saturn has a magnetic field 1,000 times stronger than Earth’s but not as strong as Jupiter’s. Due to its gaseous nature, Saturn’s density is so low that it could float in an ocean of water. It probably has a…
Mark your calendars. NASA funded research project predicts collapse of our civilization within the next few decades
According to a surprising new study funded by NASA, civilizations on Earth are set to collapse – within only a few decades. Researchers used advanced mathematical models seeded with compelling historical data related to previous civilizational collapses (e.g. Roman Empire, Gupta Empires) to reach their conclusion and found that even with conservative estimations, civilization as…
Scientists struggle to explain Mars rock that appeared out of thin air.
Last week, NASA scientists revealed the discovery of a mysterious rock on Mars that seems to have suddenly appeared out of thin air. News of the errant “mystery rock”, which NASA said was “like nothing we’ve ever seen before”, were announced last week during an event at which NASA shared the Mars rover team’s excitement…