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NASA spacecraft snaps images of lunar transit and Earth eclipse on the same day — see the photosThe Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on July 25 — the first when the moon passed between it and the sun, and another when Earth did the same.
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Behold, 'The Beast': Gigantic animal-like plasma plume 13 times wider than Earth hovers over the sunAstrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire over our home star.
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Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flightDuring a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed what the daredevil probe saw.
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May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study revealsGPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.
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Astrophotographer snaps 'once-in-a-lifetime' shot of solar flare photobombing the ISSAn astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the exact moment the International Space Station passed directly in front of our home star.
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'Never been seen before': First images from new ISS solar telescope reveal subtle 'fluctuations' in sun's outer atmosphereNASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous space weather events.
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Sun 'hole' expected to produce intense auroras tonight, potentially visible from 15 US statesA coronal hole in the sun could result in visible auroras over about 15 U.S. states tonight (June 25), with the Space Weather Prediction Center expecting a moderate geomagnetic storm.
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Behold! 1st images of artificial solar eclipse captured by ESA's Proba-3 missionSee the first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission.
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Summer solstice arrives in North AmericaThe summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America, and June 21 in Europe.
