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A new image from the world’s largest solar observatory shows a spectacular, high resolution view of a gigantic sunspot. The…
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Predicting the appearance of a sunspot is like predicting a tornado. But astronomers are starting to do it.
The sun goes through a regular 11-year cycle, swinging between periods of dormancy and periods of activity. Scientists from NASA…
Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or…
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost…
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph's thorax, under…
Since it launched in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has helped scientists understand how the Sun's magnetic field is generated…
A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in…