The Equinox Total Solar Eclipse on March 20th
The solar ‘equinox eclipse’ on March 20th will be visible from Europe with totality occurring over a part of the North Atlantic, passing over Faroe and Svalbard
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The Great Wall by Moonlight
Last Friday, an almost Full Moon rose as the Sun set, over the Great Wall of China in this mountainous landscape north of Beijing. Image credit Francis Audet
Meet our new neighbours orbiting the Milky Way
Meet our new neighbours: Astronomers discovered at least nine ultra-faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds. New dwarf galaxies orbiting around the Milky Way.
Mars Lost an Ocean’s worth of Water
New isotopic measurements by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, reveal that an ocean once covered approximately twenty percent of the Martian surface. Watch the video…
New mysterious craters found in Siberia
Dozens of new mysterious craters found in Siberia, in northern Russia. Above, the B1 Yamal hole, by a helicopter flyover in 2014.
How much Saharan Dust feeds Amazon’s plants
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions the amounts of dust that makes a trans-Atlantic journey… How much Saharan dust feeds Amazon’s
The Milky Way over the Arizona Toadstools
The magnificent central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy arches over the aged Toadstool hoodoos rock formations in northern Arizona, USA. Image credit David Lane & R.
Lotus Evora 400 supercar
The new flagship supercar Evora 400 from Lotus, will be unveiled at Geneva Motor Show on 3rd March 2015.