For all of human history, the Sun has served as a great constant in daily life. As this brilliant orb blazes across the sky, it sustaind life, provides harmonious rhythms to our world, and marks the ...
Every 11 years, the Sun flips its magnetic poles, driving a cycle of sunspot eruptions, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections that can knock out power grids and fry satellites. For decades, ...
COLORADO — We get plenty of sunny days in Colorado. You probably know that we have longer days in the summer, and shorter days in the winter. But, the path the Sun takes through Colorado's sky is more ...
The Sun’s 11-year cycle still drives flares, aurorae, and geomagnetic storms, but the machinery under that familiar rhythm ...
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Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...
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Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the strongest displays of auroras in half a millennium. The source of that light show was the ...
The sun may be a little smaller than we thought it was. Researchers who measure the sun often use total solar eclipses to block out most of its light and get a glimpse of its corona, or outer ...
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Cornellians have become experts on taking on sunny days in Ithaca — especially after a frigid and long winter. From sitting out on Libe Slope soaking up the sun, throwing frisbees on the Arts Quad or ...