A NASA satellite has caught a stunning, yet eerie, video of a huge plasma twister rising up from the surface of the sun.
The video, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a plasma eruption that swirls up like a tornado to a dizzying height of up to 93,206 miles (150,000 kilometers) above the solar surface.
"Its height is roughly between 10 to 12 Earths," solar astrophysicist C. Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., told…
Collapsing ice shelves send glacial ice surging into the ocean, possibly for decades, new research shows. Glaciers supply ice to ice shelves, thick layers of ice fixed to a land mass. Without ice shelves to slow their progress, gravity causes glaciers to surge into the ocean…
Kenyans are getting ready for dark days ahead as the National Power distributor Kenya Power and Lighting Company begins rationing power supply from 27th July.
The rationing is a culmination of erratic power supply that has been going on in different parts of the country especially in towns.
Managing Director KPLC Joseph Njoroge, said Wednesday that the generation of power reserve mergin has…
July 28, 2011 – ARCTIC – After a 10,000-year absence, wildfires have returned to the Arctic tundra, and a University of Florida study shows that their impact could extend far beyond the areas blackened by flames. In a study published in the July 28 issue of the journal Nature, UF ecologist Michelle Mack and a team of scientists including fellow UF ecologist Ted…
July 28, 2011 – SPACE – The discovery of this companion, which measures only about 300 yards across, makes Earth the fourth planet in the solar system that’s known to share its orbit with an asteroid. Imagine Earth and the asteroid traveling around a clock face, with the Sun in the middle. Generally, the asteroid runs about two numbers ahead. However, the asteroid sometimes…
July 28, 2011 – FRANCE – Toxic blue-green algae has killed 31 wild boar in a cove in Brittany, northern France. The algae is common on beaches in the area but turns deadly when it comes into contact with nitrogen waste flowing to the cove from intensive pig farms near the Gouessant estuary. The gas is as toxic…
July 28, 2011 – MARSHALL ISDS – The mass death of chickens and ducks on a small island next to the US Army’s missile testing range in the Marshall Islands is perplexing health and environment officials. The sudden and unexplained deaths of nearly 100 chickens on Enibooj Island — which has a population of less than 200 people living a largely subsistence lifestyle — sparked…
July 28, 2011 – IRAN – A man shot dead on a Tehran street by motorcycle-riding gunmen last weekend was a scientist involved in suspected Iranian attempts to make nuclear weapons and not a student as officially claimed, a foreign government official and a former UN nuclear inspector said Thursday. The man was shot Saturday by a pair of gunmen firing from motorcycles in an…
NASA has warned of a once-in-a-lifetime ‘space storm’ after the sun wakes ‘from a deep slumber’ sometime around 2013, causing ‘20 times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina’.
Senior space agency scientists believe that the super storm would hit like ‘a bolt of lightning’ and damage everything from emergency services’ systems, hospital equipment, banking systems and air traffic control devices, through to “everyday” items such as home computers, iPods and Sat…
Crazed scientists all over the globe are "playing god" with the very building blocks of life. Today, thanks to extraordinary advances in the field of genetic modification, scientists are now able to do things that were once unthinkable. Part…
The Moses Miracle is the most amazing natural phenomenon in South Korea, this event occurs twice a year during low tide, opened the land along a path 2.8 kilometers long and 40 meters wide that connects the island of Jindo and Modo for several hours.
2.Ice Circles
The Ice in great circle phenomenon rarely occurs at a water with cold temperatures . large circle of ice…
July 27, 2011 – ILLINOIS— The massive heat wave that baked half the country in triple digit heat indexes last week may have caused as many as 64 deaths in 15 states, the National Weather Service said late on Tuesday. Forecasters said the area still suffering from the excessive heat has diminished significantly, but some…
July 27, 2011 – ICELAND – One of Iceland’s largest volcanoes Katla is showing increased signs of activity as observers today reported an increase in the strength of tell-tale earth tremors. A swarm of earthquakes struck the 9-mile wide volcano, a week after geophysicists warned of an “imminent danger” of an eruption on the island. The volcano is capable of producing…
July 27, 2011 – Bizarre reports of gaping holes in the ground continue to come in from all over the place – in cities, on the open roads, in the countryside. Many of the ‘sinkholes’ you’ll see below have been individually explained away as happening due to heavy rainfall during storms, old leftover constructions from mining and subsidence caused by some nearby…
July 27, 2011 - Seoul (CNN) — A landslide near the South Korean town of Chuncheon killed 32 people and injured 24 others, authorities said Wednesday. More than 750 rescue workers had been dispatched to the site after the collapse occurred at midnight, according to the Central Disaster Relief Center. About 400…
July 28, 2011
Crazed scientists all over the globe are "playing god" with the very building blocks of life. Today, thanks to extraordinary advances in the field of genetic modification, scientists are now able to do things that were once unthinkable. Part…
