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A gigantic plume of plasma recently exploded from the sun's south pole, where solar erupt ions almost never occur. The explosion, which a photographer captured in stunning detail, is another telltale sign that the sun is about to enter its most active phase — the solar maximum .  The rare phenomenon occurred on Feb. 17, when a solar flare exploded from a sunspot near the sun's south pole, releasing a gigantic column of ionized gas, or plasma, that towered around 124,300 miles (200,000 kilometers) above the solar surface — around 15 times taller than Earth, Spaceweather.com reported . The plasma eventually snapped away from the sun and hurtled into space as a gigantic cloud, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME).   Astrophotographer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau captured a highly detailed composite image of the plume before it broke away from the solar surface. "The plasma column was so large, I had to rotate the camera to fit it into the frame," Poupeau t...

Mysterious Roswell rock with ‘alien’ patterns and magnetic properties continues to fascinate researchers The Roswell Rock, also known as the Roswell Alien Artifact, is a small, smooth stone that was found in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico in 2004. The rock has become the subject of much speculation and debate, with some people claiming that it is evidence of extraterrestrial life or that it is an artifact from an alien spacecraft that crashed in Roswell in 1947. On September 4, 2004, Robert Ridge, an avid hunter, made an extraordinary discovery while exploring the area around the infamous Roswell crash site. He came across a mysterious object sticking out of the ground, with a unique pattern etched on its surface. The Roswell rock measures 5 centimeters by 4.5 centimeters and weighs 50.78 grams with one end twice as thick as the other. The strange pattern has beveled edges and rises more than 1/8″ from the rock surface. Upon closer exami...