Space

The sun emitted another significant solar flare, peaking at 5:54 p.m. on Oct. 29th, 2013  – the fourth X-class flare in the last week. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation and…

On Oct. 23rd, 2013, the sun emitted a solar flare, classified as an M9.4 flare on a scale from M1 to M9.9 - near the very top of the scale for M class flares. Solar flares are powerful bursts of…

The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe; even colder than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space. How cold is that One…

Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but There's a new most distant galaxy ever found, created within 700 million years after the Big Bang.…

Your galaxy has a supermassiv black hole - so does mine as does every large galaxy. But how did they grew so big is a matter of speculation. Einstein predicted gravitational waves; ripples in space-…

You wouldn't think the brightest exploding stars ever discovered in the universe could need some light shed on them, but they got it anyway. A new paper proposes that the most luminous supernovae –…

Researchers have found evidence that magnetic waves in a polar coronal hole contain enough energy to heat the corona and that they also deposit most of their energy at sufficiently low heights for…

The Toby Jug Nebula, formally known as IC 2220, is an example of a reflection nebula - a cloud of gas and dust illuminated from within by a star called HD 65750.  The Toby Jug Nebula is located…

Unusual impact craters formed on Mars feature a thin outer deposit that extends many times beyond the typical range of ejecta. Nadine Barlow, professor of physics and astronomy at Northern Arizona…

This special edition of the Space Show may be of special interest if you read my recent science20.com articles about Mars and space colonization. I was asked great questions by David Livingston, and…