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Byzantine records of solar eclipses have refined measurements of Earth's rotation

Byzantine records of solar eclipses have refined measurements of Earth’s rotation

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Records of solar eclipses from a millennium and a half ago have allowed scientists to refine measurements of the Earth’s changing rotation. A careful review of historical records from the Byzantine Empire has given scientists the times and locations of five solar eclipses. The results, while consistent with previous findings, place new, tighter constraints on …

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Solar halo on Mars! This view of the Martian sky spotted by the Perseverance rover was once considered impossible

Solar halo on Mars! This view of the Martian sky spotted by the Perseverance rover was once considered impossible

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a phenomenon scientists had given up hope of seeing on Mars. On Earth, when conditions are ideal, ice crystals in the atmosphere can distort sunlight to create the appearance of a bright spot on either side of the Sun, or a halo that surrounds it. And scientists have long thought …

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Zooming In on a Solar Switchback

Strange Phenomenon on the Sun Imaged by Solar Orbiter for the First Time – Mystery Solved

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A magnetic phenomenon known as solar yaws has been imaged by ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft for the first time. The image zooms in on the yaw (blue/white feature extending to the left) as captured in the solar corona by the Metis instrument on March 25, 2022. The yaw appears to be tied to the active …

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There are potentially hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way and many of them are likely to have conditions suitable for life.

“We may find life outside the solar system in 25 years,” says researcher

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We haven’t found life on Mars yet, but a researcher thinks we could detect evidence of it on planets outside the solar system within a quarter of a century. Sasha Quanz, an astrophysicist at ETH Zurich, made the remarks during a recent opening of the university’s new Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life. …

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Solar Orbiter solves the mystery of magnetic return

Solar Orbiter solves the mystery of magnetic return

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science and exploration 09/12/2022 28853 views 65 love With data from its closest pass to the Sun to date, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has found compelling clues about the origin of magnetic tilts and indicates how their physical formation mechanism could help accelerate the solar wind. . Solar Orbiter has made the first-ever remote …

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Chromosphere Inouye Solar Telescope Crop

The Sun’s chromosphere revealed in stunning inaugural images from the world’s most powerful solar telescope

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One of the first images of the chromosphere – the area of ​​the Sun’s atmosphere above the surface – taken with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Credit: National Solar Observatory (NSO), AURA, NSF NSF’s flagship solar telescope, the largest in the world, to herald a new era in solar science. New observations published on …

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A gigantic solar flare has just emerged from the far side of the sun

A gigantic solar flare has just emerged from the far side of the sun

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The Sun has been on some pretty intense shenanigans lately, but a recent flare on the other side seems like absolute scientific gold. On the evening of September 5 GMT, a huge coronal mass ejection (CME) was recorded exploding on the far side of the Sun, sending a storm of radiation through the solar system. …

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