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Video: Watch coronal rain fall on sun’s surface
Beautiful NASA video showing fiery looping "rain" on the sun - the solar phenomenon known as coronal rain.
February 21, 2013
Video: Zoom into the constellation Scorpius
Zoom into the constellation Scorpius to find stellar nursery NGC 6357 – also known as the Lobster Nebula.
February 20, 2013
Video: What is the universe? (in 2 minutes)
The universe explained in two minutes.
February 19, 2013
Video: Another beautiful capture of asteroid 2012 DA14
Video of February 15 flyby of 2012 DA14, as it passed inside the moon's orbit last Friday. This one is beautiful in its simplicity.
February 18, 2013
Video: Best video capture of February 15 close-passing asteroid
A decaying meteor train, plus the asteroid 2012 DA14, are captured moving in the same frame of this great video from astrophotographer Colin Legg in Australia.
February 18, 2013
View from space: Russian meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere
The February 15 meteor over Russia, this time as viewed from above.
February 18, 2013
Best photos and video of asteroid 2012 DA14 during its February 15 flyby
The asteroid appeared from Earth to be moving quickly in front of the stars as it passed safely within the moon's distance from Earth on Friday, February 15.
February 17, 2013
What happened in Russia on Friday, February 15?
As yet, no meteorite fragment has been collected from the February 15, 2013 violent airburst explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia.
February 16, 2013
How many asteroids in near-Earth space in mid-February, 2013?
Objects within 0.3 AU of the Earth - or within about a third of Earth's distance fromt the sun - in mid-February 2013. From Armagh Observatory.
February 15, 2013
