HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!!!!

Here is a video from the astronauts orbiting Earth about Earth Day.
Earth Day greeting from space.

Look at what the sun did today!

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however – when intense enough – they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This flare is classified as an M7-class flare. M-class flares are one step below the most intense flares, which are designated as X-class.

Check this out!

As the only operational vehicle capable of taking significant amounts of cargo both to and from the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is already a critical piece of the American space program. Rocket launched....take  a look:
Launch of SpaceX-3

LUNAR ECLIPSES!!!!!

We are about to be treated to a full lunar eclipse. Here is a link to a video explaining this very cool phenomenon.NASA link to Tetrad And if you are extremely tired Wednesday, we might have an idea. The eclipse will happen around midnight.Happy moon viewing!