This Sundog will bark no more

Not really of any scientific value, but this is just cool. Bad SDO, bad!

BLAST! Screening! Tonight! in! NYC!

The movie BLAST! will be screening tonight! in NYC at the Explorer's Club on Monday, January 25th starting at 6:00pm. Director Paul Devlin will be on hand for a Q&A after the screening. Go here for more information.

Neat Movie of Solar Activity

Located here is a pretty amazing movie showing plumes of hot gas moving on the Sun. Go here to read an article as to what astronomers think is going on. Enjoy!

Optical movie of a Gamma-Ray Burst

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs), as you can guess from their name, as short bursts of gamma-rays. Often time, after these explosions, one can detect a very faint afterglow at optical wavelengths that disappears fairly quickly...

.... until the night of 18 March 2008, where an all-sky monitor in Chile run by the "Pi of the Sky" group (based in Poland) saw a bright flash of light from a GRB two seconds before Swift, a satellite devoted to detecting GRBs, noticed a GRB had occurred. For more info, go here. This is a pretty exciting event!