Tag: Sun

  • Send Your Name To The Sun!

    Send Your Name To The Sun!

    As you guys can tell by now with all of my astrophotography shots, I am a huge space nerd.  So, when I saw this opportunity to send my name to the name to the Sun, you can bet I signed up!  And if you want to send your name to the Sun, you can sign…

  • Spectacular Solar Prominence Eruption Caught on Video

    I have always been fascinated by the things that go on in space and I especially enjoy videos of solar prominence eruptions from the sun, especially huge ones like this!  The massive solar prominence eruption seen in the picture and video below occurred yesterday morning and I think it is probably the most spectacular one…

  • For the first time, we can see the whole sun [NASA video]

    When NASA releases almost any news about how our universe works, I tend to get rather giddy and today is no exception.  According to NASA, we can now see both sides of the sun thanks to a pair of satellites and will be able to do so for about another 8 years.  This vision of…

  • Double solar eclipse: Moon and IIS in front of the sun [pic]

    A couple of days ago, there was a solar eclipse visible in Europe and Africa and one man traveled to France for the opportunity to take a one in a lifetime picture. Thierry Legault traveled to France to capture something special.  It wasn’t about just taking an amazing picture of the solar eclipse, something that…

  • Solar Prominence Eruption [amazing space video]

    Image via Wikipedia If you are unfamiliar with NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feature, they post an amazing space picture every day.  It is common for them to post pictures from the Hubble, planets seen in the sky at sunset and even shuttle launches, but today they posted and amazing video of the sun…