Scientists have long been puzzled by why the Sun’s corona is over a million degrees Celsius while its surface is only about 5,500°C, and how the solar wind accelerates to high speeds.
For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic ...
These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout ...
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Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS erupted with violent ice volcanoes, shifting from quiet ice ball to active body, sparking ...
It’s such a violent process, astronomers have found that the surface of 3I/ATLAS’ nucleus could be dotted with erupting “ice ...
The yet-to-be-peer-reviewed findings indicate that comet 3I/ATLAS shares similarities with the icy trans-Neptunian objects — ...
The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...
This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...
New images from ESA's Juice probe and Hubble reveal a rare double tail on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it approaches Earth ...
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Hubble images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reveal a sunward anti-tail, showing a teardrop-shaped coma with separated ...