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‘It was 3 hours of magic’: Spectacular auroras thrill stargazers across the world (and internet) as intense geomagnetic storm batters Earth (photos)

October 11th, 2024 by

A powerful geomagnetic storm illuminated auroras that lit the skies over Earth on Thursday (Oct. 9) after X 2 solar flare that erupted from the sunspot AR 3848 on Tuesday (Oct. 8) evening.

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New Artemis moon camera gets 1st field test (photos)

October 11th, 2024 by

Recently, an international team took the HULC moon camera out for a test drive in lunar-like conditions to improve the camera’s design for Artemis moon missions.

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Hubble Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe team up to image Uranus

October 11th, 2024 by

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe have teamed up to image the ice giant Uranus, which will help inform future direct imaging of exoplanets.

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Cosmic rays have surprising amounts of antimatter. Is dark matter responsible?

October 11th, 2024 by

There’s too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this be explained by annihilating dark matter? If so, does it point to the existence of WIMPs?

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Gaia space telescope discovers 55 ‘runaway’ careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound

October 11th, 2024 by

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope finds — and nobody knows why (video)

October 11th, 2024 by

The Hubble Space Telescope has seen Jupiter’s Great Red Spot oscillating in width as it drifts around the planet. Could this be related to its overall shrinking?

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Solar storm bombarding Earth now may reach ‘extreme’ levels, sparking auroras down to Alabama and straining hurricane-weakened power grids

October 11th, 2024 by

A severe solar storm sparked by an intense flare from the sun could reach “extreme” levels as it bombards Earth, NOAA officials warned Thursday (Oct. 10).

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Hopes dim for another bright October comet after Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

October 11th, 2024 by

There’s been talk of another spectacular comet putting on a show in our sky after Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Unfortunately, however, it doesn’t look like the newcomer will deliver.

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