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The 5000th Comet Discovered Using Space-Based Sun Observatory
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
NASA Solar Observatory sees coronal loops flicker before big flares
For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...
Solar Flares: NASA Reveals Early Warning Sign of 'Dangerous Space Weather'
"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...
Vision-based navigation system enables satellites to approach or avoid other objects in space
Mounted on a robotic arm attached to a 33-m long rail, a camera system is brought closer and closer to this scale-model ...
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Invisible 'flickering' on the sun could predict potentially dangerous solar flares hours in advance
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
Towering task: Astronomy buffs fight to save shuttered observatory near Pontiac
The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...
China's reusable rockets pave the way for space-based solar power
Chinese researchers are working on a new power station project that could gather and convert solar energy directly from space ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
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200 solar physicists gather in Bengaluru for KSO’s 125th anniversary
The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), established in 1899, has made significant contributions to understanding solar ...
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Invisible 'flickering' on the sun could predict potentially dangerous solar flares hours in advance
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal ... which could act as an early warning system for dangerous space weather. Shining loops of plasma on the surface ...