Massive 500,000-Mile Coronal Hole on the Sun Blasts Solar Wind Toward Earth
A massive coronal hole has opened on the sun, sending high-speed solar wind toward Earth and increasing aurora activity.
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Inside the NASA Center in Maryland Helping Us Explore Space
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...
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NASA Discovers Massive Hole in the Sun—62 Times Bigger Than Earth!
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has detected a colossal coronal hole on the Sun’s surface, stretching an estimated 500,000 miles across—a size equivalent to 62 Earths lined up side by side.
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World’s Largest Telescope Faces a New Dire Threat: Light Pollution from Renewable Energy
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
The key is finding gases in excess of what should be there. The solar sail for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout, a robotic reconnaissance mission designed to fly by asteroids, easily fits ...
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Global Warming
Throughout its long history, Earth has warmed and cooled time and again ... and the rest is absorbed by the atmosphere. The absorbed solar energy heats our planet. As the rocks, the air, and the seas ...