Size: 230,000 kilometers by 170,000 kilometers (142,915.4 miles by 105,633.1 miles). Location: Sol. “The X5.7 [solar] flare occurred at 10:03UT on 14 July 2000, in Active Region 9077 [AR9077], observed by TRACE in its 195Å pass band…Following this mass ejection, an arcade of magnetic fields lights up, cooling down from many millions of degrees.”
This is Britain - but not as we know it. These extraordinary satellite images reveal what our nation looks like from the skies.From flight paths and road networks to telephone exchanges across London, the stunning aerial shots paint a striking new perspective on the British Isles.
Pluto should have its status as a planet reinstated, leading astronomers have said.Senior space scientists, including experts from Nasa, will this week attack a controversial decision by the International Astronomical Union, the body responsible for astronomy nomenclature, to redefine what constitutes a planet.
On the evening of July 28th, the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of the Durban University of Technology, successfully detected its first radio source from beyond the solar system. A strong signal was detected from Sagittarius A, the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 30 thousand light years away.
Billions of Euros have been ploughed into the construction of the largest experiment known in the history of mankind. The Large Hadron Collider (officially due to be “switched on” September 10th 2008) will eventually accelerate hadrons to energies near the 1 TeV mark by the end of this decade.