Astronomers have zoomed in on small loops of plasma within a powerful solar flare for the first time, potentially revealing the fundamental building blocks of the sun‘s violent storms. The images, captured with the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, reveal arcs of hot gas just 10 to 30 miles wide that follow the sun’s magnetic fields. Earlier …
Read More »
It took astronomers a little over a year to analyze the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare. But they’re finally done, and the results are illuminating—literally and figuratively. Last year, NSF’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured a high-resolution image of a solar flare crossed with dark strands of coronal loops. Further analysis revealed that the solar flare was an …
Read More »
The powerful NSF Inouye Solar Telescope has just delivered absolutely mind-blowing observations of its first X-class solar flare. On 8 August 2024, the telescope managed to capture one of the most powerful flares our Sun is capable of producing – at a remarkable resolution of just four Earths across. This level of detail reveals some of the finest structures we’ve …
Read More »
The Inouye Solar Telescope captured this image of a solar flare on August 8, 2024. (Image credit: NSF/NSO/AURA, CC-BY) The world’s largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they’re spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on the final stages of a powerful X-class solar flare on Aug. …
Read More »Tensions Flare Between Two Federal Agencies Charged With Aviation Safety The New York Times Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals CNN 3 big takeaways from the NTSB hearing on the DCA midair collision NPR Broken altimeter, ignored warnings: Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67 apnews.com Deadly …
Read More »
Astronomers have been left baffled by a cosmic discovery that defies longstanding theories about how stars interact with supermassive black holes. A powerful flare, linked to a star being torn apart by a black hole, was observed twice—two years apart—by a team of researchers led by Tel Aviv University. This phenomenon challenges current understandings of tidal disruption events and raises …
Read More »
By Xander Pero, Contributing Writer Unova region lovers unite! The newest pair of expansions, Scarlet & Violet—Black Bolt and Scarlet & Violet—White Flare, reintroduce and revitalize nostalgic favorites from the original Black & White expansions, which debuted in 2011. Since then, the game evolved and new behemoths reign in the 2025 Standard format. Will these Unova legends thrive within the …
Read More »
The Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Black Bolt and Scarlet & Violet—White Flare expansions are coming to Pokémon Trading Card Game Live on July 17, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. PDT. Collect and battle with Pokémon TCG cards featuring every Pokémon from the Unova region, including powerful Legendary and Mythical Pokémon. Reunite with first partner Pokémon Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott, and see …
Read More »
When the three-year era of Sword & Shield came to an end in January 2023, it went out with a bang. Crown Zenith was a set so great that it spoiled the next year of the hobby, with its stunning pull rates, incredible art, and fan-favorite pocket monsters. For reasons that are impossible to fathom, The Pokémon Company has chosen …
Read More »
The era of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is about to draw to a close. While the mainline video game series may have broken from its traditional three-year cycle, the trading card game has not, and the run of Gen-IX-led packs comes to an end with this month’s release of Black Bolt and White Flare. Oddly, it’s a celebration of the …
Read More »