Solar Eclipse!!

Listen up peeps! There is going to be a solar eclipse on August 1st! This is the first one we've had in two years, so it's a big deal!! However, there is one teeny tiny flaw to the whole thing..... you won't be able to see it in Florida. At all. But at least none of the other states will get to see it either, so HA! But if you happen to live WAAAAY up north then you are now the object of my envy. I'm turning green..... sooooo green.
And here's a video of a solar eclipse seen from NASA's STEREO spacecraft, which is a pretty nifty view, not going to lie.
Full link to article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080725/sc_space/viewersguideaug1solareclipse

Jupiter Had a Baby!

Okay, not literally, but it's close enough. It's actually a baby red spot!! It's adorable and I've named him Jr. So that's it in the picture and it is soooooo cute!!! Unfortunately it didn't quite make it all the way around the giant red spot, but it still gets an E for Effort.

Earth Songs!

This is the sound that Earth makes and that aliens and whatnot could hear if they really wanted to. This lovely sound is created when charged solar particles slam into our magnetic field. Luckily for us, our ionsphere blocks this from actually reaching us. And this is amazingly good because this sound is a radio wave that oh so happens to be 10,000 times stronger than anything that we've got and that would totally explode our radio stations.... which might be fun to watch but what are you supposed to listen to when you are driving?

Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field. It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.

And here's the full article, which will not link once again. We are seriously getting very friendly with mister cut and paste. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080701-st-earth-sounds.html