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Sunrises Across the Solar System
Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or…
The Sun Might Have Once Had a Binary Companion Star
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost…
This is What the Solar System Really Looks Like
At first glance, it looks like something from an alien autopsy. A strange organ cut from a xenomorph's thorax, under…
New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun’s Last Nine Big Flares
Since it launched in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has helped scientists understand how the Sun's magnetic field is generated…
A Simulation of Sunsets on Other Worlds: From Venus to Titan
A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in…
Scientists are much better at predicting when the Sun is going to become more active
The sun constantly cycles between periods of activity and periods of inactivity, and a new technique allows scientists to better…
The Sun is less active magnetically than other stars
While the Sun can be active, it is often quite a calm star. We now know it is unusually calm…
The heliosphere looks a lot weirder than we originally thought
Every second of every day, our sun spits out a stream of tiny high-energy particles, known as the solar wind.…
Solar Orbiter is Already Starting to Observe the Sun
The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data…
The ESA’s Solar Orbiter, a Mission That Will Chart the Unexplored Polar Regions of the Sun, Just Launched!
The ESA's Solar Orbiter launched earlier today on its five-year mission to study the Sun, which scientists hope will lead…