2.5-- Elephants on LSD. Droppin that acid. Oh yea. That's hot.

An iridescent cloud over Colorado. End of the world? Perhaps. But perhaps not. Actually- probably not. Iridescent clouds are formed of small water droplets of roughly the same size. The inner clouds greatly diffract sunlight in a coherent manner. (Or close to.) This happens most readily when the sun is behind thick clouds. Overall the phenomena is rare.

An X-Class Flare Region on the King.

This is a photograph of a flare unleashed by our sun, captured by the TRACE satellite- which filmed Active Region 9906. The event took place over about 4 hours. The gas flows around relatively stable magnetic fields, and reaches temperatures in excess of 10 million degrees Celsius. Many aspects of the processes are as of yet unknown.

2.02 Blizzog. For when Astronomy class just isn't enough.

October 31st. Halloween. Ghost-head Nebula. In this article; the people at NASA assume that the reader is interested in the past of Halloween. They were wrong. Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day-- a day halfway in between an equinox and a solstice. The Ghost-head Nebula looks like it's fictional counterpart and is a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This nebula spans about 50 light years.