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A physics-based method for predicting imminent large solar flares

Predicting large solar flares through a critical condition of magnetohydrodynamic instability.

First-ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets

The observations can help astronomers understand how planets formed and evolved around our own Sun.

Scientists identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin

Understanding the star nursery from which the Sun emerged.

ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter snaps closest picture of the Sun

No other images of the Sun have been taken from such a close distance.

Eight percent of red giants exhibit starspots

Gigantic, red and full of spots.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured a unique view of comet NEOWISE

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spies newly-discovered comet NEOWISE.

NASA just released epic 10-year timelapse of Sun

NASA has released a 10-year timelapse of the Sun that is prepared by using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The Solar Dynamics Observatory...

Shedding new light on solar flares

Solar flares are an explosion of energy caused by tangling, crossing, or reorganizing of magnetic field lines near sunspots. In extreme cases, solar flares...

Astronomers measured the shape of the magnetic field of the solar corona

The Sun's corona is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere. And he stream of energized, charged particles, primarily electrons, and protons, flowing outward...

Giant spots discovered on the surface of extremely hot stars

Astronomers using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of extremely hot stars hidden in stellar clusters. Not only...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe began its longest observation campaign to date

On May 9, 2020, Parker Solar Probe started its longest science observation campaign. The probe activated its at a distance of 62.5 million miles...

Astronomers identified a rhythm among pulsating stars

By listening to the heartbeat of the stars, astronomers for the first time detected a rhythm of life for a class of stellar objects...

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