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The sun has been gradually gaining strength as it nears its highest rate of activity - solar maximum -- during its approximately 11-year solar cycle. But, scientists won't be able to ascertain whether solar maximum has occurred until at least seven months after the fact. We asked ESA's Space Weather Coordination Center's (SSCC) solar expert center why this is the case.
(NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams)
A powerful solar flare erupted from a giant unstable sunspot last night, triggering radio blackouts on Earth and firing a hot plasma plume through the sun's atmosphere at speeds of 900,000 mph (400 km/s). The long-duration solar flare from the sunspot region AR3575 began on Monday (Feb 5) at 8:30 p.m. EST (0130 GMT on Feb 6) and peaked at 10:15 EST (0315 GMT on Feb 6), according to solar physicist Keith Strong who posted details about the eruption on X.
In Aug, 2017, a total solar eclipse moved from the Pacific to the Atlantic, throwing a narrow corridor through 14 U.S. states under the moon's shadow in the first coast-to-coast totality for 99 years. On that day, the shadow moved from Oregon across the U.S. to South Carolina, from roughly northwest to southeast. Now, it's about to happen again, with the total solar eclipse on April 8 beginning in the Pacific and ending in the Atlantic, but this time, there are some distinct differences.
In recent weeks as NASA and JPL have been coming to terms with the end of Ingenuity's groundbreaking mission, agency leaders have praised the helicopter and the teams behind it.
About a year ago, Latif Nasser was having a pretty ordinary evening. The day was done, the sun had set, and he was standing in front of his two-year-old son's crib, tucking him in. It was the same room he'd visited tons of times before, performing the same duties, looking at the same wall decorated with the same solar system poster he'd seen from the same … wait. What was that? For the first time, Nasser did a double take of the artfully illustrated poster. And, for the first time, he noticed something strange. This unassuming diagram indicated Venus has a moon - a moon named Zoozve?
Researchers there are using instruments to dig into what the OSIRIS-REx collectibles are telling them, right down to the atomic scale. Space.com caught up with two leading scientists now engaged in extracting what those darkish asteroid particles are illuminating, sorting out how these materials exported from Bennu came to be.
Using the overarching narrative of "Halo's" dense sci-fi worldbuilding as a starting point and launching into an alternate timeline with revised characters and story elements that enflamed hardcore gamers out of their Mjolnir power armor, the show's executive producers went their own way with a tangential version of "Halo."
