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IN A NUTSHELL 🔍 Counterfeit and fake solar eclipse glasses are a growing concern, risking severe eye damage. 🌞 Solar retinopathy occurs when the retina is burned by UV rays during an eclipse. 🕶️ Consumers should verify glasses for the ISO 12312-2 Standard to ensure safety. 🛒 Purchase eclipse glasses from reputable vendors to avoid counterfeit products. As anticipation builds …

It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and Saturn, while its twin Voyager 2 took a slightly different route to ogle other planets. This primary mission for both spacecraft completed in early 1990, with NASA holding a …

Objects such as ‘Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that outsiders regularly visit our solar system — and we’re about to start spotting a whole lot more of them. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space …

Earth is being hit by numerous solar storms that could interrupt power grids and communication systems. These storms arise from surges of plasma from the sun’s outer layer, which disturb Earth’s magnetic field for a time. The most recent geomagnetic storm, a G3, began to affect Earth late Sunday evening, followed by a G2 event on Monday, as per Daily …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌞 An inverted “S” structure, ten times the size of Earth, appeared on the Sun. 🌍 The solar event preceded a coronal mass ejection that reached Earth, causing a geomagnetic storm. 🛰️ The resulting geomagnetic storm was mild, causing minor disturbances to Earth’s magnetic shield. 🔭 This phenomenon highlights the need for continued monitoring of solar activity …

An unforeseen contribution from Juno Juno, meanwhile, has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, collecting information on the giant planet’s internal structure, magnetic field, and atmosphere. “Everything is functional,” said Scott Bolton, the lead scientist on Juno, also from SWRI. “There’s been some degradation, things that we saw many years ago, but those haven’t changed. Actually, some of them improved, to …

Our sun’s fiery flares are even more extreme than scientists had thought, blasting particles to temperatures six times hotter than earlier estimates, according to new research. Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun’s atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are notorious for disrupting satellites, scrambling radio signals and potentially posing dangers to astronauts in space. …

1I/’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object to visit our solar system in 2017, belongs to a completely new class of space objects, scientists have discovered. It is a piece of an icy exoplanet, more specifically an “exo-Pluto,” a group of cosmic bodies that are highly unlikely to visit the Sun. “Everything about this object is consistent with it being a slab …

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility that the interstellar interloper is an “extraterrestrial artifact” that was sent to us by an intelligent alien race. Researchers have broadly come to the consensus that 3I/ATLAS is a comet. Most …

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility that the interstellar interloper is an “extraterrestrial artifact” that was sent to us by an intelligent alien race. Researchers have broadly come to the consensus that 3I/ATLAS is a comet. Most …