The High Frontier

• The Universe Top To Bottom: The Scale of Our Solar System [infographic] by Dave Goodwin
• How the Most Important Parachute In the Solar System Works by Dave Goodwin
• Did NASA Find a New Kind of Super-Powerful Cosmic Blast? by Dave Goodwin

• Image of the Day: Violent Glowing Blob 100-Billion-Miles Wide Cloaks Massive Star by Dave Goodwin
• Design for a Long Duration, Deep Space Mission Habitat Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/96256/design-for-a-long-duration-deep-space-mission-habitat/#ixzz20QFBLccL by Dave Goodwin
• The sun released an X1.1 class flare on July 6, 2012, peaking at 7:08 PM EDT. This flare caused a radio blackout, labeled as an R3 on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations scale that goes from R1 to R5. by Dave Goodwin

• Asteroid-Hunting Private Telescope Could Find 500,000 Space Rocks by Dave Goodwin
• Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere (and they aren't good) by Dave Goodwin
• Exiting the Solar System. We've done it - barely. by Dave Goodwin