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Two days after an historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly 10 times closer to the sun than Mercury — the Parker Solar Probe phoned home for the first time since its solar encounter. It's ALIVE!!!
2024 was a busy year for solar news, but what can we expect from 2025? We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.
In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. All is takes is just one powerful flare to send a CME our way that could bring a late Christmas gift of auroras before the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve.
The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a year-long observation challenge. NASA and the Astronomical League are launching an observation challenge, encouraging skywatchers on the ground to search the skies for the same incredible objects Hubble has observed during its tenure in space.
New research suggests the planet holds around 6.2 trillion tons (5.6 trillion metric tons) of hydrogen in rocks and underground reservoirs. That's roughly 26 times the amount of oil known to be left in the ground (1.6 trillion barrels) — but where these hydrogen stocks are located remains unknown.
This past week, fans were thrilled to hear the fantastic pre-holiday news that Apple TV+ has shown its boundless confidence in the show's future by ordering up not just one, but two more seasons to finish out its extraordinary survival saga.
"All Good Things", "What You Leave Behind", "Endgame"… Now "The New Next Generation" becomes the latest addition to the pantheon of memorable "Star Trek" season finales, as the franchise's only out-and-out comedy, "Lower Decks", goes out in style.
