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The first-ever baby pictures of a solar system that’s not our own are finally here—and they’re beautiful—and as adorable as space entities can get. In a paper published today in Nature, astronomers presented HOPS-315: a Sun-like protostar cooking up a brew of hot minerals and silicon monoxide gas, located about 1,300 light-years away from Earth. The special thing about HOPS-315 …

Your heart does more than pump blood. It also broadcasts tiny timing shifts that doctors read as heart rate variability (HRV), a window into the balance of your autonomic nervous system (ANS). A five‑month field study now suggests those shifts rise and fall with patterns in space weather.  “The study makes a striking correlation between people’s HRV and …

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in their efforts to build optical communication systems for future missions to the Moon and beyond. Scientists at the Kryoneri Observatory near Athens, Greece, shot a powerful …

NASA’s Parker Probe Just Dived Into the Sun’s Atmosphere and Solved a Fiery Solar Mystery  SciTechDaily See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail  The Washington Post NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun  NASA Science (.gov) NASA just snapped the closest photos of the Sun ever taken  Yahoo NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What …

Artist rendering of a ninth planet in the solar system beyond Pluto. (Illustration by Tobias … More Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images An object has been discovered orbiting the sun far beyond Pluto, calling into question theories about a possible Planet Nine in the solar system. The object, for now, designated 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed …

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost planet. The least studied and most mysterious of the solar system’s rocky planets, Mercury is so close to the sun that exploring it is difficult even for probes. Only …

See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail  The Washington Post NASA just took the closest-ever images of the sun, and they are incredible (video)  Space NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun  NASA Science (.gov) Watch Solar Winds Burst into Space in the Closest-Ever Glimpse of the Sun  Colossal NASA Reveals The Closest Images Ever Taken of The …

3 On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe traveled closer to the Sun than any spacecraft had before. During this close approach, or perihelion, the spacecraft’s four instruments observed the Sun’s atmosphere from inside. This week, NASA released images collected by the spacecraft’s Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument. Since the close approach in late 2024, Parker Solar …

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history with the closest-ever approach to the sun last December, and we’re finally getting a look at some of the images it captured. The space agency released a timelapse of observations made using Parker’s Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) while it passed through the sun’s corona (the outer atmosphere) on December 25, 2024, revealing …

Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena.  The entire disc of the sun captured on September 2, 2024, reveals the beauty of solar activity with an unprecedented level of detail and depth. Composite Photograph by Miguel Claro Photographs byMiguel Claro Text byPaola …