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Sun Superflares Can Do Some Serious Damage, And They Occur More Often Than Previously Thought
Every now and then, the sun erupts with a powerful flare that could do some serious damage. Experts don’t know […] ...
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Time-Lapse Of Plasma Swirls Above Sun's Surface For 36 Hours
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of superheated plasma and 3 prominences in a magnetic field dance with the Sun. #shorts ...
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Christmas solar flares erupt from the sun. Will they trigger aurora 'fireworks' as we close out 2024?
Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...
NASA Celebrates as Sun-Exploring Spacecraft Confirms It’s Still Alive
The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in ...
NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches Sun’ In Defining Moment For Humankind
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun early Tuesday, getting within just 4% of the Earth-sun ...
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China nuclear fusion discovery finds mysterious energy boost to power up plasma
Researchers in China have used a novel approach to explain the presence of supra-thermal ions in nuclear fusion reactions.
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Solar Probe touched the Sun, now scientists wait for a signal and "proof of life"
The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...
History-making probe is about to make the closest-ever approach to the sun
On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe is set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun when it flies within a few ...
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Parker Solar Probe survives historic closest-ever flyby of the sun, NASA confirms
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...
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Scientists await signal from spacecraft after historic close encounter with the sun
To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
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History-making probe achieves closest-ever approach to the sun
Scientists also want to understand how coronal mass ejections, or large clouds of ionized gas called plasma and magnetic fields that erupt from the sun’s outer atmosphere, are structured.