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Thanks to its innovative orbital configuration, MESOM would effectively experience a total solar eclipse every synodic month as it naturally passes through the apex of the Moon’s umbral cone, or the ...
Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...
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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares
Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which would have wiped ...
Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar ...
While the Sun appears placid to the naked eye, it is a roiling sphere of ionized gas or plasma, shaped by powerful magnetic ...
Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...
Once they escape the Sun, they zoom through space at the speed of light, eventually reaching Earth and giving us that sweet, ...
Just last month, a powerful solar storm lit up skies across the northern hemisphere, producing vivid auroras visible as far ...
A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...
An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.