An illustration shows solar flares on the surface of the sun. A scientist is predicting a massive solar storm could disrupt the internet for months sometime in the next decade. Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images A so-called “internet apocalypse” could be on the horizon as a result of an impending solar superstorm, …
Jupiter as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team. The solar system’s largest planet—and its sparkling moons—will this Friday be at their biggest, brightest and best in all of 2023. Jupiter will …
The latest image of the sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams According to the Space Weather Prediction Center, the sun is becoming more active more quickly than anticipated and will peak earlier than predicted. That peak will also last longer and could even peak …
People try to take a picture with a smartphone of a solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 at the Cité de … [+] l’Espace (Space City) in Toulouse. (Photo credit should read PASCAL PAVANI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images On Saturday, October 14 an annular “ring of fire” solar eclipse will come to …
Krayonna Thames and her son Jaedin Barnes, 5, use protective glasses to watch the solar eclipse … [+] along the waterfront near the Children’s Museum in Boston, Aug. 21, 2017. (Photo by Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Boston Globe via Getty Images School’s out for the solar eclipse. The coming annular solar eclipse …
Over six million people live in the path of the annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023 through … [+] the U.S. Southwest. Michael Zeiler/GreatAmericanEclipse.com When is the next eclipse? On Saturday, October 14 at 16:15 Universal Time—9:15 a.m. PDT—those close to the Oregon Dunes will see a perfect “ring of fire” as the moon …
NASA’s new interactive map for the solar eclipse on October 14, 2023. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio NASA has published a new interactive map for Saturday, October 14’s ‘ring of fire’ annular solar eclipse. Called the “Eclipse Explorer,” it’s based on the space agency’s eclipse maps revealed earlier this year, but includes several new interactive layers …
A NASA spacecraft captured incredible imagery as it flew through an eruption from the sun recently. Pictures beamed back to scientists on Earth even show the fiery ejection “vacuuming up” space dust left over from the formation of the solar system. The fly-through by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took place on September 5 and NASA …
Parker Solar Probe’s Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument captured the moment the … [+] spacecraft passed through a coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 5, 2022. getty NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft ever to fly through a coronal mass ejection from the sun—a powerful eruption of billions of tons …
The Hyades open cluster in Taurus. getty The closest black holes to Earth ever detected have been found in the Hyades open cluster just 150 light-years distant. An open cluster is a loosely bound group of hundreds of similarly aged stars, all of which share chemical characteristics. The Hyades, which is found in the constellation …