Astronomers have captured the first footage of a solar “tsunami” hurtling through the Sun’s atmosphere at over a million kilometres per hour.

Posted by Darth McCarth, filed under Space. Date: April 7, 2008, 9:11 pm | No Comments »

A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays – and Earth may be right in the line of fire. (More)

Story and picture source: www.cosmosmagazine.com

Posted by Darth McCarth, filed under Space. Date: April 1, 2008, 6:15 pm | No Comments »