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The Most Powerful Solar Flare in 7 Years Just Occurred This Year
My Modern Met· 2 days agoIn early May, solar flares caused stunning auroras, grabbing the attention of a lot of astronomy...
35 sun quotes guaranteed to brighten your day
TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoLewis “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” — Helen Keller “The glorious sun, / Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, /...
U of A scale model solar system extends off campus to add Pluto's broken heart
Arizona Daily Star· 6 days agoPluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system,...
Rocky, carbon-rich exoplanets more likely around tiny stars, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
Space via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoAn artist's depiction of a primordial planetary system. (Image credit: NASA) "Many primary...
Sharper Than Ever – Io’s Volcanic Surfaces Revealed by New Telescope Technology
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter’s moon Io at a resolution never before...
A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoHowever, Welbanks and Sing's measurements of the core mass differ. While this discrepancy warrants...
New Telescope Images of Io are so Good, it Looks like a Spacecraft Took Them
Universe Today· 6 days agoWith two primary mirrors measuring 8.4 m (~27.5 ft), it has a collecting area slightly greater than...
How auroras on Earth, Saturn and Jupiter could help forecast risky space weather
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoScientists have investigated the different factors shaping celestial light-shows over Earth, Saturn...
Astronomer Lunine appointed chief scientist of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 23 hours agoPlanetary scientist Jonathan I. Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and...
A distant, young star can reveal secrets of how planets form
Astronomy Magazine· 12 hours agoA star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in...
