'Ring of fire' solar eclipse over Easter Island amazes! | In photos: The annular solar eclipse of 2024 | Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun (video)
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On Wednesday, a lucky handful of skywatchers watched as the sun transformed into a stunning "ring of fire" in the sky over the remote Easter Island in the Pacific ocean and parts of South America. The result: A spectacular celestial event that won't happen there again for centuries.
(NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams / helioviewer.org)
The sun has just unleashed its most powerful solar flare this cycle, a colossal X-class eruption. The X9.05 solar flare peaked at 8:10 a.m. EDT (1210 GMT), triggering shortwave radio blackouts over Africa and Europe, the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption.
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Aurora chasers get those cameras on charge! Due to heightened solar activity, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a geomagnetic storm warning for Oct. 3 through to Oct.5. This is great news for those wishing to see the northern lights because if the predicted G3 conditions are reached we could witness auroras deep into mid-latitudes (around 50°) and as far south as Illinois and Oregon.
A long-running leak is the top "safety risk" affecting the plan to keep astronauts on board the International Space Station until 2030, a new NASA audit found. The leak increased by 50%, to 3.7 pounds per day, NASA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) stated in a new report released Sept. 26.
NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space.
Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous mass extinctions, each of which has wiped out more than three-quarters of the planet's species and greatly reduced its biodiversity. "These events can either be a catastrophe or the best thing that has happened to our planet, depending on what point of view you are taking," Arwen Nicholson, a planetary scientist at the University of Exeter in the U.K. and co-author of the paper, told Space.com.
