Solar Orbiter Just Solved a Major Mystery About the Sun
Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
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Space pictures! See our space image of the day
Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering ... has opened in the sun's atmosphere, spewing fast-moving solar wind toward Earth. The solar wind escaping from this ...
NASA Just Captured Stunning Images of a Comet’s Fiery Tail
G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...
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Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS' 'near-death encounter' with the sun may have blown it apart, new photos suggest
New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...
Super Rare Comet Seen Once In 1,60,000 Years Photographed From Space Station By Astronaut
The comet ATLAS, experts say, has a 1,60,000 year orbit around the Sun. It was discovered in April 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), hence the name. As for its origin, ...
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Giant hole in the Sun could trigger solar storms in early February
There are two giant holes in the Sun right now which could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February.
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Bright comet's tail dazzles in images from spacecraft
From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...