Back-to-Back Solar Flares Knock Out Radio Signals Across the US
The first of the two flares, which was emitted on Saturday, can be seen on the right side of this image.Image: NASA/SDO That massive ball of hot gas at the…
Two-Faced: Wacky White Dwarf Keeps Its Surface Gases Separate
Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar remnant that keeps its light elements separate, in a strange first. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer Off English…
Horrifying images of a sunspot seen up close by the Inouye Solar Telescope
A stunning new set of images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope shows the surface of the sun in incredible detail — including frankly disturbing images of sunspots seen…
American Born Chinese Brings Immortal Martial Arts to High School
Image: Disney+ Ben Wang stars as Jin Wang in American Born Chinese, the adaptation of the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang of the same name. The Disney+ original show…
Mercury sighting offers boost for Solar Orbiter mission
Operated by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Solar Orbiter mission launched in February 2020. The goal of the mission is to capture the closest images of the…
See the ‘quiet’ of the sun’s corona in Solar Orbiter footage
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has made a second close approach to the sun and has captured stunning footage of its corona.
See the horror of the sun up close from world’s most powerful solar telescope
The astronomy community has a new tool for studying the sun, with the inauguration this week of the world’s largest solar telescope.
Plotting the death of our sun using data from Gaia
Recent research using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has shed light on the eventual fate of our sun.
Six tiny satellites will form a huge virtual telescope to study space weather
NASA has plans to study hazardous space weather events in more detail than ever before, using a group of six small satellites in a project called SunRISE.
The sun is even more active than expected right now
The sun goes through a regular 11-year cycle of activity. But so far in this cycle, the sun is even more active than predicted.