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Sun releases a powerful solar flare. But don't expect unusual northern lights in US
NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.
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Human-Made Solar Eclipse Returns These Breathtaking Images of the Sun
The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.
See NASA's image of an intense X-class solar flare
The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class flare — the ...
Massive Solar Storm Sparks Rare G4 Alert: What It Means for Earth
An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research ...
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15 GW from outside Earth — This solar collector will beam energy to Earth
Humankind has an extremely high energy demand, which is why a solar collector will be beaming approximately 15 GW of energy ...
Solar Orbiter spacecraft obtains first images of the sun's poles
The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a ...
A look at the first artificial solar eclipses created by 2 European satellites
Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims ...
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The Last Time NASA's Voyager "Looked Back" At Our Solar System, This Is What It Saw
In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...
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See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun’s South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...