Comet Shoemaker Levy Colliding with Jupiter

Spectacular images of Jupiter during and after impacts, when over twenty fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into the planet in July 1994. Click here to read more.




Solar Flares caught by SOHO

This mega-flare was seen being spewed out by the Sun starting at 20:29 CET on 4 November 2003. This video sequence was captured by SOHO’s Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope. Don’t worry about the image being green – it’s just the filter they used in order to see.Click here to read more.




In this video below, astronomers blocked out the sun (seen as a white circle in the center of the red disk) so they could see the action in the corona.




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9 Responses to “Recent Astronomical Events”

  1. Caroline Wood says:

    Do sun flares affect our weather?

  2. Caroline Wood says:

    How high is a sun flare?

  3. Sonya Fiebig says:

    Whoa, cool!

    Laura

  4. Transiting means that one object is passing in front of another. So when Venus transits across the face of the sun, you’ll see a black dot (Venus) moving from one side of the sun to the other. (This isn’t something you want to observe with your naked eyeballs, though.)

    You can see pictures of Io transiting Jupiter here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_transit

  5. sevy keble says:

    What is “transiting”?

  6. Yes, good question – I think it was Venus transiting. I can check my star charts to verify that it was Venus, not Mercury.

  7. sevy keble says:

    In the Huge Solar Flare video, what was that thing that looked like a small, white ship going across the sun close to the end?