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Sun Blasts Powerful X1.2-Class Solar Flare - See Spacecraft Views
Watch footage of the Sun unleashing an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in ...
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NOAA's GOES-R Satellite Captures Sun Blasts Powerful X2 Flare
Sunspot 3912 erupted with an X2-class solar flare.NOAA's GOES-R satellite captures footage of the blast in multiple ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...
NASA just got closer to the sun than ever before, so of course they had to take a picture
Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...
Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...
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Behold, 'The Beast': Gigantic animal-like plasma plume 13 times wider than Earth hovers over the sun
Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...
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The most massive black hole merger ever seen
This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...