By Jonathan O’Callaghan We now have some prior warning before powerful solar flares occurNASA Goddard A new method to predict solar flares could help us to prepare for potential disasters caused by these huge eruptions on the sun. Predicting solar flares is difficult, because we don’t know exactly how they […]
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Comet NEOWISE has been mesmerising stargazers across the northern hemisphere as the giant ball of ice produces a stunning gaseous tail visible to those of us on Earth. While the comet is now getting more distant, stunning images are still rolling in of the mesmeric comet, and no more so […]
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. and U.K. defense agencies plan to award $1 million to startups at the first International Space Pitch Day in November during the Defence Space Conference in London. The event, backed by the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Royal Air Force, U.S. Space Force and NATO, […]
Comet NEOWISE has been mesmerising stargazers across the northern hemisphere as the giant ball of ice produces a stunning gaseous tail visible to those of us on Earth. So clear are the colours coming from the comet, astronomers have been able to determine what exactly the icy rock consists of. […]
Scientists have described a “gaseous material” which has been ejected from the Sun and is on a crash course with Earth. Astronomers believe the solar wind could arrive on Thursday, July 23 or Friday, July 24, after being blasted out from a region in the Sun near to its equator. […]
The bursts of high-energy radiation may help explain why the Sun’s atmosphere is 300 times hotter than its surface. A European Space Agency probe called Solar Orbiter – designed and built by Airbus in Stevenage, Herts – took the stunning images. It was making “a close pass” at the time […]
An orbiter, constructed by Airbus in Stevenage, has been getting up close and personal with the Sun. The probe, known as the Solar Orbiter and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), was launched in February 2020 and is now just 77 million kilometres from the Sun. Although that may […]
The first images from NASA and ESA’s Solar Orbiter are offering us the “closest ever” look at the sun. “These unprecedented pictures of the sun are the closest we have ever obtained,” said Holly Gilbert, NASA project scientist, in a release on Thursday. “These amazing images will help scientists piece […]