This Week in Space Podcast: Episode 115 – Our Friendly Mr. Sun
In Episode 115 of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk about the sun and solar activity cycles.We see the sun every day as it rises and…
The encounter between the Sun and “something outside the Solar System” may have dramatically cooled the Earth
As the Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, oscillating up and down relative to the galactic plane…
Interstellar space clouds caused ice ages, research suggests
The Pleistocene epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—is still looming in Earth's rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers suggests that those hundreds…
Scientists have studied the Sun’s heartbeat and discovered something unusual
Scientists studied the heartbeat of the Sunchuchart duangdaw - Getty Images"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn a commission or revenue from certain items through these links."Alternating groups of planets may…
Black holes 10,000 times the mass of the Sun can form in ‘birth nests’
Scientists have found that rare intermediate-mass black holes may have formed in dense star clusters. Known as "globular clusters," these bodies are filled with tens of thousands to millions of…
How NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its first close encounter with the sun
OSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest approach to our sun on January 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REXcompleted its mission to return samples…
US radio stations shut down as historic sunspot fires ‘remarkable’ X-flare
A powerful solar flare was emitted from the same sunspot that produced the spectacular northern lights on May 10.The May 29 solar flare was measured as an X1.4 flare, one…
Chang’e-6 is ready for a landing attempt this weekend as the sun rises over the Apollo Crater
HELSINKI — Chang'e-6 will attempt to land on the moon this weekend, marking a critical moment in China's mission to collect the first samples from the far side of the…
New research places the sun’s magnetic field near the surface, overturning decades of theory
New research shows that the sun's magnetic field originates near the surface, not deep inside the star. . This overturns decades of prevailing scientific thought that placed the field more…
First observation of a focused plasma wave on the Sun
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