Newly named sunspot AR1598 has release an M5 class solar flare. This is the same region that released an M9 flare on Oct. 20, 2012.
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, an M9, peaking at 2:14 p.m. EDT on Oct. 20, 2012. The associated radio blackout, an R2, has subsided, reports NOAA.
NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck visited on Oct. 15, 2012, to meet with some of the center’s most innovative technologists.
NGC 3344 is a glorious spiral galaxy around half the size of the Milky Way, which lies 25 million light-years distant.
The Innovative Partnerships Office and the Information Technology and Communications Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. accepted InformationWeek Magazine's Best Innovative Government Agency award.