Tag: Sun

Wait, What? Superstitions Black People Have Passed Down From Generations

Photo: Javier Zayas Photography (Getty Images) On April 8, a total solar eclipse will pass over North America, beginning at various times depending on your state and time zone, with the moon completely blocking out the sun for around 4 minutes. Science attributes this phenomenon to our planet’s orbit around the sun and rotation. However, […]

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Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

It’s come to this. With Earth at its hottest point in recorded history, and humans doing far from enough to stop its overheating, a small but growing number of astronomers and physicists are proposing a potential fix that could have leaped from the pages of science fiction: The equivalent of a giant beach umbrella, floating […]

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No, It’s Not a Joke. An Andre 3000 Album Is on the Way

Well, I’ll be damned. I guess Killer Mike wasn’t teasing. After years of begging for new music from Andre 3000, he has finally granted our wish (but not in the way that you think). OutKast’s Big Boi On Big RV Remix, Creating Celebrity Trailers, & His Must-Have RV Features Off English His debut solo album, […]

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The sun may be smaller than we thought

The sun may be a little smaller than we thought it was. Researchers who measure the sun often use total solar eclipses to block out most of its light and get a glimpse of its corona, or outer atmosphere. This method pegged the sun’s radius at about 432,468 miles (695,990 kilometers), a measurement accepted as […]

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See the sun’s savage surface like never before in new timelapse video

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical “Skyscapes” that connect both Earth […]

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India’s Aditya-L1 sun probe spots 1st high-energy solar flare

India’s newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays. On Tuesday (Nov. 7), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that Aditya-L1‘s High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS) instrument had spotted the impulsive phase of a solar flare — the powerful burst of energy […]

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Fire in the sky: Chasing the annular solar eclipse 2023 on the Extraterrestrial Highway

ELY, Nevada   — The state of Nevada is the perfect place to watch for strange things in the sky.  And it’s easy to see why as you head north out of Las Vegas and turn onto state route 375, the “Extraterrestrial Highway.” This straight stretch of windblown road crosses mostly empty desert, offering vast vistas […]

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Get Ready for the ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse This Saturday

Millions of people across the Americas are preparing for an experience like no other on Saturday. The moon will interrupt the sun, casting a shadowy veil from Oregon to Brazil during an annular solar eclipse. This weekend’s astronomical marvel is set to swoop over the Western United States, through the Yucatán Peninsula and across many […]

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flies through major coronal mass ejection — and survives to tell the tale

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), or magnetic bursts of plasma from the sun’s corona, are fearsome indeed. They can drive high-energy space storms for millions of miles and endanger satellites, astronauts and even electronics within Earth’s atmosphere. So, engineers cheered when they learned the Parker Solar Probe drifted through a CME unscathed on September 5, 2022. […]

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Watch a NASA Probe Fly Right Through a Massively Powerful Sun Explosion In First

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. A NASA spacecraft flew right through one of the most powerful explosions ever recorded as coming from the Sun, capturing stunning footage of the fallout from a distance of just 5.7 million miles, which is about six times closer to our star […]

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