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Tiny plasma jets on the sun drive the elusive solar wind, Europe's Solar Orbiter reveals
"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...
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Aurora alert! Gigantic 500,000-mile 'hole' in the sun's atmosphere could spark impressive northern lights tonight and tomorrow (photo)
Coronal holes are areas where the sun’s magnetic field opens up, allowing solar wind to flow freely into space, according to ...
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Invisible 'flickering' on the sun could predict potentially dangerous solar flares hours in advance
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
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Time-Lapse From Space Of Huge Tornado On Sun Captured
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive 'tornado' on the sun in multiple wavelengths. Unlike the Earth, ...
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NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." The sun, for all its glitz, tends to hide behind a veil of mystery.
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Solar Flares: NASA Reveals Early Warning Sign of 'Dangerous Space Weather'
Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...
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"Someone is lying" – User questions why space is dark despite the sun, internet roasts: "Bro, you need to stay in school"
Social media users excel at raising questions that challenge your belief system regarding human intelligence. The questions ...
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Sun News
Eyes on the Sun: Naked Thallium-205 Ion Decay Reveals ... Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
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Perihelion: What is it and when does it occur?
Johannes Kepler fitted an ellipse model of Mars' orbit to observations of Mars," Bloomer told Space.com. "He came up with the first law of planetary motion that states that planets orbit the sun ...
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When is the Winter Solstice and what happens?
At the Winter Solstice, the sun travels the shortest path through ... This pole represents the Earth's axis and is poking out into space from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, according ...