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The Sun Is Suddenly Spitting ‘X-Class’ Flares At Us. Why It’s Happening And What It Means

Jessica Jan 17, 2023 0

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash ... on the left side of the image – on Jan. 9, 2023. The image shows a subset of…
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See The Breathtaking Highest Resolution Ever Photos Of The Sun’s South Pole (And A Weird ‘Solar…

Jessica May 20, 2022 0

The Sun’s south pole as seen by the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft on 30 March 2022, just four ... days after the spacecraft passed its closest point yet to the Sun.…
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See The Jaw-Dropping New 83 Megapixel Photo Of The Sun Sent Back From A Spacecraft Halfway There

Jessica Apr 2, 2022 0

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has returned an incredible 83 megapixel image of the Sun. ESA/ATG medialab If you only look at one “space photo”…
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New Research Could Help Solve Centuries-Old Mystery Surrounding The Sun

Jessica Mar 31, 2022 0

Sunspot 917 on the surface of the sun. getty In 1645, something strange happened with our sun. Galileo was one of the first astronomers to document…
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Some Of Our Sun Is An Optical Illusion. ‘My Mind Exploded’ When I Found Out Says Shocked Scientist

Jessica Mar 3, 2022 0

The sun's coronal loops. Getty Images A solar physicist who developed a model of the Sun’s corona—it’s hotter, outer atmosphere that’s visible to the naked…
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