Christmas aurora alert! Northern lights may grace Midwest skies
Parker Solar Probe attempts record-smashing 'kiss' of the sun for Christmas | Aurora alert: Northern lights in Midwest skies for Christmas | How to follow Santa Claus with NORAD's 2024 tracker
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On Christmas Eve, a NASA spacecraft made history by coming closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has before. This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun, braving the blistering heat of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona.
An incoming coronal mass ejection could spread aurora cheer this Christmas. Its anticipated arrival is predicted to spark minor geomagnetic storm conditions with auroras possible at high latitudes, such as northern Michigan and Maine.
Circumnavigating our planet bringing toys and joys is no simple task for Santa Claus, it's still a miraculous annual mission requiring expert mapping and some cooperation from Mother Nature. The NORAD Tracks Santa website and app are here to provide Christmas revelry by following exactly where in the world the Big Red Guy is and where his course will bring him next.
"Doctor Who: Joy to the World" continues the veteran sci-fi show's two-decade run as a Christmas TV institution. The Time Lord has been a fixture of the BBC's festive schedules ever since 2005's "The Christmas Invasion", and this year is no different. Here's how to watch it from across time and space!
The fireball, which streaked over parts of Missisippi, Arkansa and Missouri on Saturday night, was the death knell of a defunct Chinese commercial Earth imaging satellite called Superview 1-02 (or GaoJing 1-02) as it burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Video of the Chinese space junk burning up shows it as several streaks of objects flaring up in the night sky.
Astronauts, scientists and explorers gathered aboard an Antarctica-bound ship on Friday for a panel discussion aimed at inspiring young people's curiosity about the ocean, outer space and their own backyards.
Scientists have received an unexpected Christmas gift this year: a potential solution to the mystery of JuMBOs, strange celestial objects that seem not to be planets or stars. "I think of JuMBOs as a cross between stars and brown dwarfs - they would have been like stars had it not been for the radiation from the more massive stars, which has sculpted them to be more like brown dwarfs." Try putting a bow on that!
There's a disturbingly sinister presence peering from a dark nebulous realm in the season finale of HBO's "Dune: Prophecy," which ended its short-but-satisfying debut season this past Sunday night with a multitude of revelations, unexpected deaths, family truths unveiled, and the arrival on one notorious desert planet Arrakis.
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