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Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic 'curtains' on the sun's surfaceThe Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and dark stripes called striations that are caused by powerful magnetic fluctuations.
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Bottom of the sun becomes visible to humans for the first time in history (photos)For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal our star's magnetic field is a powder keg ready to blow.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe spots powerful magnetic explosion aimed at the sun's surfaceNASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict geomagnetic storms on Earth.
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The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar systemDiscover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.
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New 8K-resolution photos of the sun show off incredible details of raging sunspotsAdvanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.
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Space photo of the week: Pink 'raindrops' on the sun captured in greatest detail everSolar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.
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Giant 'senior citizen' sunspot on 3rd trip around the sun could break a century-old recordA large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The unusually old dark patch remains stable and could be on course to become the longest-lived sunspot on record, experts claim.
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Powerful Mother's Day geomagnetic storm created radio-disrupting bubbles in Earth's upper atmosphereResearchers have provided some new insights about the powerful geomagnetic storm that flared up last Mother's Day, after a big solar storm hit Earth.
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Eerie NASA image shows eclipsed sun with an extra moon overhead. Yes — it's real.NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlight. The mission is still undergoing commissioning and is expected to start science operations June 9.
