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The most detailed photo ever taken of a sunspot shows a dark patch bigger than Earth roiling for 10,000 miles
The sun's powerful magnetic fields create dark spots where hot gases boil up from below. Earth's la…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A stunning NASA time-lapse reveals a decade of the sun's solar flares, sunspots, and shifting magnetic energy
The bright flashes the video shows are eruptions like solar flares, while dark patches on the surfa…
Aria Bendix
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A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter has captured the planet's colorful electrical outbursts — 'sprites' and 'elves' — for the first time
Jupiter's lightning seems to produce brilliant flashes of light high above its water clouds — alien…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dreamy new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows the birth of 50 sun-like stars
Webb's vibrant one-year anniversary image shows about 50 stars in various stages of formation about…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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Astronomers reveal the first-ever photo of 2 planets orbiting a sun-like star, taken from 300 light-years away
Jupiter and Saturn have nothing on these gas giants. The planets are several times more massive and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A spacecraft rocketing around the sun just beamed back the closest images ever taken of our star
The Solar Orbiter discovered little explosions happening all across the solar surface. They could c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Never seen before picture shows every cell of the Sun is twice the size of Rajasthan
The structures are rolling along the Sun’s surface, helping scientists map the magnetic fields w…
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A new image of a mysterious object careening toward our solar system strongly suggests it's the first comet from another star system
Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer in Crimea, first spotted C/2019 Q4 in the sky on August 30. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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Over 100 new minor planets found at edge of solar system
Astronomers have discovered more than 100 new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located…
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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are ruining images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, threatening future science
Hubble has sunk to an orbit among the satellites, including SpaceX's growing Starlink constellation…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of Earth, Moon ahead of gravity assist
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has captured an st…
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Scientists say climate solutions like solar power and walkable cities are cheap, doable, and can make a dent in the crisis
The climate crisis is daunting, but a major UN report outlines plenty of low-tech ways for governme…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Second mysterious interstellar space object to fly through our solar system has an official name
Now it officially has a name — 2I/Borisov. The 2I represents that it’s the second interstellar…
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The smallest dwarf planet in our solar system was hiding in the asteroid belt
Hygiea isn’t a new discovery but the fact that it meets the International Astronomical Union’s (…
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Mesmerizing new NASA image shows the lava on one of Jupiter's moons that helps form the massive planet's auroras
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an infrared picture of Jupiter's moon Io, which is home to hundreds …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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New images of Jupiter reveal clusters of giant cyclones unlike anything else in our solar system
"This is really an amazing result, and future measurements by Juno will help us understand how the …
Jeremy Berke
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Here’s how NASA’s Parker Solar Probe entered Sun’s atmosphere for the first time
This “remarkable feat” was lauded by Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for the Sci…
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NASA captures an exploding comet on its hunt for planets outside our solar system
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was on the hunt for planets outside our …