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Northern Lights could be seen across UK as G3 magnetic storm forecast

A G3 warning has been issued after 17 flares erupted from the same location on the surface of the sun

Wales Online

Planet Nine: Astronomers narrow in on mysterious maybe-planet's location

A team of astronomers used the Dark Energy Survey to look for the hypothetical Planet 9. They narrowed down where it isn't in the sky.

Inverse

Daylight saving time could end up being permanent in the US. Experts say it's a bad idea

Millions of Australians will turn the clocks back an hour next Sunday — but what if they didn't? It's a scenario which may well come to pass in the US.

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30 years ago, an international space mission radically changed how we see Earth

ATLAS-1 launched to space on March 24, 1992. Thirty years later, this predecessor spacelab to the ISS still holds interest for scientists here on Earth.

Inverse

Sun seen in unprecedented detail through Solar Orbiter images

The pictures were taken on March 7 when the spacecraft crossed directly between the Earth and Sun.

The Independent UK

Dinosaur-killing asteroid blocked out sun and caused worse global cooling than earlier thought, study says

Asteroid impact may have injected sulphur-bearing gases into the atmosphere, ‘magnifying’ cooling effects

The Independent UK

Date and time of when the clocks go forward in the UK in 2022

We gain an hour of sunshine in the evening

Nottingham Post

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Stargazers to be given another chance to see the Northern Lights in Scotland tonight

The nighttime spectacle is expected to be visible in northern parts of the country on Sunday night.

Daily Record

107 years later, scientists have vindicated one of Einstein’s most remarkable theories

This past summer a team of X-ray astronomers announced in Nature a fortuitous discovery that provides a new way to study black holes and their immediate surroundings.

Inverse

Solar storm 'triple threat' set to light up skies in 'direct hit'

People around the world may be able to see the Aurora, a light show that is often seen in high latitude areas

Wales Online

Where and when you can spot the Northern Lights in Wales tonight

The display was captured over Llangrannog on Sunday, March 13

Wales Online

Solar storm set to light up skies in 'direct hit' and it could happen any time this week

People across the world may be able to see the Aurora, a light show that is often seen in high latitude areas, this is expected to be seen further towards the equator during the storm

Daily Mirror

A home-made analogy that helps study solar spicules in the lab

Paint poured on the mouth of the speaker, when fed music, breaks out in spicule-like jets

The Hindu

Sun’s Coronal Loops May Just Be An Optical Illusion

"When I saw the results, my mind exploded," said Anna Malanushenko, who led the study.

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The Conversation

Solar storms can destroy satellites with ease – a space weather expert explains the science

On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failure was a geomagnetic storm caused by the Sun.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Finger-Like Solar Flares’ Explained in New Study

In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare. Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar flare also displayed a downward flow of motion, as if material was falling back towards the Sun. Astronomers wondered what exactly they were seeing. Now,…

ABC News

Just how bad could a big solar storm be in the internet age? And how would Australia be affected?

In 1859 a massive solar storm knocked out the telegraph, but back then there was no electricity or internet. So what would happen if a storm that big hit today?

The Conversation

Nuclear fusion: how excited should we be?

There’s been tremendous excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, hinting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works – it is the process that powers the Sun, providing heat and light to the…

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Inverse

Astronomers find a zombie star feasting on its shattered planets

Fragments of heavy elements keep polluting a white dwarf star, leading astronomers to believe it could be asteroids from shattered planets.

The Conversation

Ruby clouds and water behaving strangely – what we found when studying an exoplanet's dark side

Since astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, we have found many worlds that are very unlike the ones in our own Solar System. A large number of these “exoplanets” are large, gaseous planets roughly the size of Jupiter, orbiting close to their parent stars…

The Conversation

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune: why our next visit to the giant planets will be so important (and just as difficult)

The giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are some of the most awe-inspiring in our Solar System, and have great importance for space research and our comprehension of the greater universe.

Bangkok Post

Like sand through an hourglass

On Feb 1, Ulysse Nardin marked the Lunar New Year with the launch of Blast Moonstruck -- a sequel to earlier astronomical timepieces created by engineer and master watchmaker Ludwig Oechslin.

Salon

New planet in our galactic neighborhood

Proxima d, which orbits the star nearest our Sun, is estimated to be only a quarter of Earth's mass

ABC News

Rocket part set to crash into Moon is from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission, not Elon Musk's SpaceX

It's not a SpaceX rocket that will crash into the Moon next month, but a piece of a Chinese one that launched in 2014. So why the case of mistaken identity?

Dynamite News

Researchers observe planetary bodies for first time in habitable zone of dead star

White dwarfs are glowing embers of stars that have burned through all their hydrogen fuel. Nearly all stars, including the Sun, will eventually become white dwarfs, but very little is known about their planetary systems. A new study revealed the discovery of a ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized…

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