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Science & Exploration 01/09/2025 1666 views 31 likes The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the Sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from our star. The Sun is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar System. It whips up electrons …

World witnessed the longest 74-minute solar eclipse in history with Concorde 001 flying at 2,500 km/h  Times of India From 7 minutes to 74 minutes: How a supersonic jet Concorde made day turn to night for over an hour  The Economic Times What made the 1973 solar eclipse the longest at 74 minutes  CNBC TV18 In 1973, Just A Handful Of People Witnessed …

Solar storm could bring the Northern Lights to Western New York for Labor Day  WGRZ Northern Lights Could Put on a Show for Large Sections of the U.S.  The New York Times Northern lights might be visible across 18 states tonight  CBS News Northern Lights may dazzle the Midwest on Monday night  10TV Northern lights may be visible Monday, Tuesday nights in Washington  king5.com Source …

Labor Day northern lights may dazzle parts of U.S. after solar storm  The Washington Post Northern Lights Could Put on a Show for Large Sections of the U.S.  The New York Times Northern lights may be visible in 18 states tonight, including NH and Maine  yahoo.com Northern lights may be visible Monday, Tuesday nights in Washington  KING5.com Northern lights might be visible across 18 …

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 …

Heads up aurora chasers! A powerful solar storm is on its way and could supercharge the skies with northern lights just in time for the Labor Day holiday. A long-duration M2.7 flare erupted from sunspot Active Region 4199 on Aug. 30, launching a fast-moving, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME is expected to reach Earth late on Sept. 1 …

Credit: Pixabay. In the late 1980s, when Switzerland was just beginning to experiment with solar power, engineers bolted a few shiny panels onto rooftops, mountain stations, and even utility-scale farms. They probably didn’t expect those panels to still be humming along more than three decades later. But that’s exactly what a new study shows. Researchers from Switzerland, Austria, and Germany …

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 …

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 …

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days in our Solar System. More than just a simple space rock, Bennu contains not only material from the Solar System, but material from beyond our system. Bennu follows an …