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Destructive Super Solar Storms Hit Us Every 25 Years Or So
Solar storms powerful enough to wreak havoc on electronic equipment strike Earth every 25 years, according to a new study.…
This is the Highest Resolution Image Ever Taken of the Surface of the Sun
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) recently took its first image, which happens to be the highest-resolution image of…
Astronomers Discovered a New Kind of Explosion That the Sun Can Do
Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a team of scientists have discovered a new type of solar phenomenon that…
Power Grids and Satellites Are More at Risk from Extreme Solar Storms Than We Thought
Exactly how dangerous are solar storms? Scientists think the Carrington Event was one of the most powerful ones to ever…
How The Sun’s Scorching Corona Stays So Hot
We've got a mystery on our hands. The surface of the sun has a temperature of about 6,000 Kelvin -…
Here’s the First Image of the Sun from the Parker Solar Probe
It's been 124 days since the Parker Solar Probe was launched, and several weeks since it made the closest approach…
Astronomers Find One of the Sun’s Sibling Stars. Born From the Same Solar Nebula Billions of Years Ago
The AMBRE project, an international consortium of astronomers, was able to find a star that formed with our Sun (and…
Scientists are Using Artificial Intelligence to See Inside Stars Using Sound Waves
How in the world could you possibly look inside a star? You could break out the scalpels and other tools…
Parker Solar Probe Became the Closest Thing We’ve Ever Sent to the Sun. And it’s Just Getting Started.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is now the closest object to the Sun that we've ever sent into space. On Oct.…
Here are the First Pictures From the Parker Solar Probe. Wait… That’s Not the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe recently collected its first-light data in order to test its instruments, and snapped some beautiful pictures…