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Experts worry that with the increase in the number of satellites and debris orbiting the planet, the next big solar storm could throw the near-Earth space into chaos for weeks.
In September 1859, a massive solar storm wreaked havoc on telegraph systems and created auroras as far south as Cuba and Honolulu, Hawaii and as far north as Santiago, Chile. By what name do we refer to this incident today?
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Bright turquoise plumes ripple through the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, like waves in the ocean in a spellbinding new view shared by NASA.
There is promising new work underway to pursue a deep space robotic interstellar mission. Called Interstellar Probe, this venture could capture a unified view of our heliosphere, out into nearby interstellar space.
It's almost impossible to know where to look with optical telescopes to search for the sources of these vibrations in the vast universe. The new telescope, called the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), aims to change that.
The United States' first production spacecraft to be launched into space, Mercury-Redstone 1A (MR-1A), is now on exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation in Garden City on a loan from the Smithsonian.
