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| Image credit: NASA/Dan Bartlett |
The beautiful Comet Nishimura has been gracing this part of Space, flying close to our Sun and having an orbit of 400+ years. I wonder what "payload" it's delivering to our Solar System during this Ascension Cycle we're in.
For more details, please read Space.com's article here.
Since it stayed close to our Sun, observers did not expect it to survive, but it did:
Comet Nishimura, which was discovered earlier this year has made its closest approach to the Sun, and surprisingly survived the journey.
The full article from India Today appears here.
Meanwhile, we're storming:
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| Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun |
And this is still happening:
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| Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun |
This recent CME today (19th) had a velocity of 800+ km/sec:
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| SpaceWeatherLive |
....producing some spectacular Auroras:
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| SpaceWeather.com |
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