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Giant Sunspot Cluster Could Pelt Earth with a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection
Scientific American· 6 days agoA sunspot cluster as wide as 16 Earths has shot out at least five eruptions of magnetic fields and...
Satellite images show what the historic geomagnetic storm looked like from space
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMillions of Americans looked to the night sky and snapped magical photos and videos of the northern...
Milky Way's halo is filled with 'magnetic donuts' as wide as 100,000 light-years
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAstronomers have determined that the Milky Way's outer halo is filled with "magnetic donuts" that...
How a giant sunspot unleashed solar storms that spawned global auroras that just dazzled us all
SPACE.com· 4 days agoFirst, it was the total solar eclipse at the beginning of April. Then, late last week, the sun...
Why can't we see the far side of the moon?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"Energy has to come from somewhere, so it comes from the rotation of the body." The moon's rotation relative to Earth slowed down, until ...
Nobel laureate shares vision for molecular machines at Fudan University
China Daily· 6 days agoBernard Lucas Feringa, the 2016 Nobel laureate in chemistry, presented his pioneering work constructing molecular machines that operate on tiny scales at a lecture at Fudan University on Friday ...
Where Do We Get Seeds for Seedless Fruit? And More Questions From Our Readers
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoWhere do we get the seeds for seedless fruit? You don’t need seeds to grow seedless fruit. In one method, you take vegetative cuttings of the parent plant and root them out, essentially cloning ...
Biodiversity Loss Increases the Risk of Disease Outbreaks, Analysis Suggests
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoNow, a large-scale analysis of nearly 1,000 scientific studies has shown just how closely human activity is tied to public health. Published last week in the journal Nature, the findings suggest ...
Beantown Rundown: Why Celtics Game 2 loss vs. Cavs is not the same as Game 2 vs. Heat
ClutchPoints· 6 days agoAfter their dominant Game 1 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, it wasn't far-fetched to expect...
A Star Became 1,000 Times Brighter, and Now Astronomers Know Why
Universe Today· 1 day agoThe pair is called FU Orionis (FU Ori), and it’s in the constellation Orion. The sudden and extreme...
