Satellite spots glowing lava in erupting Hawaiian volcano

'Absolutely bonkers' aurora lights up the sky above Iceland | Satellite spots glowing lava in erupting Hawaiian volcano | Space quiz! Auroras are caused when energetic particles from the sun interact with what layer of Earth's atmosphere? Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com |  Web Version January 19, 2023 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE The Launchpad 'Absolutely bonkers' aurora lights up the sky above Iceland (Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) An Icelandic room reservation paid off big for a student "aurora chaser." Full Story: Space (1/18)  Satellite spots glowing lava in erupting Hawaiian volcano (NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS photograph by K. Lynn) Kilauea, based on Hawaii's Big Island nearby the volcano Mauna Loa, has been erupting again since Jan. 5 and its fresh activity glows in a Landsat 8 satellite image taken on Jan. 11. Full Story: Space (1/18)  POLL QUESTION: Space quiz! Auroras are caused when energetic particles from the sun interact with what layer of Earth's atmosphere? Learn the answer here! Ionosphere Stratosphere Troposphere Mesosphere Space Deal of the Day Save 20% on Celestron's NexStar Evolution 9.25 telescope (Celestron) Grab over $700 off the smartphone-controlled computerized Celestron Nexstar Evolution 9.25 telescope and see the stars in the cosmos at a fraction of the cost. Full Story: Space (1/18)  Skywatching See '3 days in the life' of gorgeous green comet (Soumyadeep Mukherjee) The montage shows the brilliant comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) moving across the sky on approach to the Earth and sun. Full Story: Space (1/19)  What time is Sunday's conjunction of Venus and Saturn? (Starry Night Software) The two planets will be close enough in the sky to both be seen through a telescope. Full Story: Space (1/19)  Science & Astronomy Astronomers discover Milky Way is lighter than expected (Caltech) Mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) helped astronomers weigh our galaxy. Full Story: Space (1/19)  3.3 billion Milky Way objects found by astronomical survey (DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Image processing: M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF's NOIRLab)) A new survey, perhaps the largest of its type, shows the Milky Way's galactic plane in stunning detail. Full Story: Space (1/18)  SpaceX SpaceX launches 51 Starlink internet satellites (SpaceX) Liftoff took place 10:43 a.m. EST (1543 GMT; 7:43 a.m. local California time) after being delayed from Jan. 15. Full Story: Space (1/9)  Spaceflight Will China's Zhurong Mars rover wake up from hibernation? (China News Service) China's Zhurong Mars rover remains silent despite being expected to wake up in December - but there's still hope that the vehicle could rise from its slumber. Full Story: Space (1/18)  'Unwanted fire' may have caused ABL rocket failure (ABL Space Systems via Twitter) The first stage of ABL's RS1 rocket shut down completely 11 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 10. Full Story: Space (1/18)    Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036