Tag: Nasa
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NASA’s Fermi detects antimatter emitted from thunderstorms
According to NASA, their Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected antimatter coming from thunderstorms. Apparently the storms act like particle accelerators and as a consequence, a stream of antimatter is created. Rather than trying to explain it myself, I will let NASA do it in this cool video below.
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Total lunar eclipse visible tonight
Image via Wikipedia If you live in North or Central America, tonight is the first time in nearly 3 years that you can see a total lunar eclipse. The spectacular space show gets started at 10:33pm PST and ends at 2:01am. The total eclipse part will take place between 11:41pm PST and 12:53am. The last…
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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…