Here’s some pretty incredible footage of an eruption on the Sun that occurred on July 19, 2012, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. This one came with the works: a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and (this is the cool ...
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The Sun unleashed what many are calling a “solar tsunami” on Friday, November 16, 2012, with two massive eruptions occurring within four hours. The action was caught by NASA’s space-bound Solar Dynamics Observatory, and you can see the footage in ...
Read More »Catch Tomorrow’s Solar Eclipse Online
A solar eclipse will occur tomorrow, November 13, at 12:30 p.m. PST (that’s 2:30 p.m. CST, 3:30 p.m. EST), visible from the northern coast of Australia. For those of us outside Australia, however, we can still view the eclipse online ...
Read More »Photo: Solar Whip
An incredible coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun on August 31, 2012, shooting out “a long filament of solar material” that actually connected with “Earth’s magnetic environment.” Or, in other words, a solar whip. Just like Indiana Jones, right? ...
Read More »Astronomers Discover First Evidence Of Planet Destroyed By Its Star
In about five billion years, the Sun will eat Planet Earth. Well, not exactly eat. It’s not going to pull up a chair, cook some fava beans and pop open a bottle of chianti or anything. But it will roast ...
Read More »The Sun May Be Surrounded By Dark Matter
Dark matter is theorized to be responsible for a very large portion of the universe’s total mass. The only problem? We can’t see it, and we’re only aware of it due to its gravitational effects on what we can see. ...
Read More »Photo: A Sun Flower
Here’s a very cool image of a prominence eruption on July 2, 2012, which sent a M5.6 class solar flare hurtling towards Earth. It missed us by that much. Actually, it erupted towards the south, facing Earth but not aimed ...
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