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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

After Last Week's Spectacular Auroras, What's Next for the Sun?

Solar activity peaked in October 2024, and despite declining sunspot counts the Sun can still generate significant space weather events during the cycle's declining phase.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful Solar Flare

AR4274 produced an X4.0-class solar flare and CME that may trigger auroras and could return toward Earth within a 27-day solar rotation.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Aurora australis: southern lights to be visible across large parts of Australia amid severe solar storm

When it comes to aurora viewing, experts recommend heading somewhere dark, away from city lights, looking to the south, and allowing your eyes to acclimatise to the darkness first. You might just see a hint of it with your naked eye, you might see something a little bit fuzzy, maybe a little bit red. That's when it's time to take out your camera and take a long exposure you can do this on your mobile phone, Webb said.
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fromNature
3 weeks ago

From the archive: Do sunspots affect the price of corn?

Crop prices correlate with an 11-year solar period, and a meteor detonates over Ireland, in this week's pick from the Nature archive. 100 years ago doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03455-0 This article features text from Nature's archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful. Find out more.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

The Sun unexpectedly increased activity since about 2008, reversing a decades-long quieting trend with more sunspots and solar flares.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Sun's south pole revealed for first time, in images from Solar Orbiter spacecraft

The Solar Orbiter has captured unprecedented images of the sun's south pole, aiding our understanding of solar magnetic activity and cycles.
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