The connection? None, unfortunately. Just three unrelated stories I thought were worth sharing with you guys. I’m reading John B. Alexander’s UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities at the moment, and found the recent Electric Politics interview with Mr. Alexander quite interesting. John has had a unique experience looking into the UFO question from [...]

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Sunspot 1158, that is. The sun is waking up after years of slumber and has recently unleashed the strongest solar flare since December 2006. This Tuesday, sunspot 1158 flung an X-class flare (X2.2) towards Earth, and the coronal mass ejection that followed should hit us sometime today. Readers living closer to [...]

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This photo of the recent solar eclipse was taken from Muscat, Oman by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. The duration of the International Space Station (ISS) transit was only 0.86 seconds. Talk about timing! The image shows the sun at 150 million km, the moon at about 400.000 km and the ISS at 500 km.

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