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On Tuesday, May 14, scientists recorded a solar flare that was among the twenty most powerful in the history of observations and the strongest in the current solar cycle. This was reported by Science Alert. Sunspot AR 3664 ejected a powerful X8.7 flare, followed by a slightly weaker X3.4 flare the next day, May 15. […]
The M-class solar flare, which occurred in the area of sunspot AR3575, caused extensive shortwave radio communications outages in the South Pacific. In Australia and Southeast Asia, sailors and radio amateurs reported signal loss at frequencies below 30 megahertz within an hour of the peak of the outbreak. There were also short-term power outages in […]
In a year, on December 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will try to “touch” the Sun, writes BBC. At a speed of 195 km/s, it will rush past the Sun only 6.1 million kilometers from its “surface.” This will be the closest teenager in history to a star. At perihelion, the point closest to the […]
The growing activity of the Sun, which is already affecting radio communications on Earth, will cause the NEOWISE space telescope to burn up in the atmosphere of our planet. The reason for this is the heating and expansion of the atmosphere from solar activity, which leads to faster deceleration of objects in orbit. NEOWISE is […]
On Thursday, December 14, a NASA spacecraft detected a huge pulse of energy radiation. The sun has released the most powerful flare since September 2017. About this he writes Space.com. “The flare, which occurred at 12:02 a.m., is registered as X2.8, making it the most powerful solar flare since September 2017,” the report said. Sun […]
NASA scientists have presented an amazing image of the protostellar jet HH212, located in the constellation Orion. This photo, taken with the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the Sun’s unusually violent birth and growth. The image shows powerful gas emissions and jets of energy, which is a characteristic phenomenon during the birth of stars. The […]
India’s Space Research and Development Organization (ISRO) has launched a rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 spacecraft as part of its first mission to observe the Sun. This was reported by Reuters. The launch took place at 9:20 am Kyiv time. Later, ISRO announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the spacecraft had successfully entered orbit. PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission: […]
After India became the first country to land a device near the South Pole of the Moon, a spacecraft is planned to be launched to view the Sun This was reported by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). “The launch of Aditya-L1, India’s first space-based observatory for studying the Sun, is scheduled for September 2,” […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA summarized the first months of operation of the largest ground-based telescope for observing the Sun – the Solar Telescope named after Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) with a mirror with a diameter of 4.24 m. In honor of this, two spectacular images of the star, the […]
Researchers have recorded 17 solar flares from a single spot on The Sun recently. We tell you what to expect for humanity. On Earth, auroras will be observed in the corresponding territories. In other parts of the world, there may be interruptions in communication and failures in the operation of satellite systems. What is known […]