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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of WindUranus in false color, imaged by Voyager 2 in 1986.

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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of WindUranus in false color, imaged by Voyager 2 in 1986.
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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of Wind

clock-iconDecember 4, 2025
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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"A heart-shaped hole in the Sun.

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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"A heart-shaped hole in the Sun.
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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"

clock-iconSeptember 16, 2025
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NASA Releases Closest Ever Images Of The Sun, Snapped As Probe Travels Through Its Atmospheretenuous semitransparent waves are in the center of the image like tendrils of smoke.

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NASA Releases Closest Ever Images Of The Sun, Snapped As Probe Travels Through Its Atmospheretenuous semitransparent waves are in the center of the image like tendrils of smoke.
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NASA Releases Closest Ever Images Of The Sun, Snapped As Probe Travels Through Its Atmosphere

clock-iconAugust 8, 2025
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Mesmerizing Cosmic Dust Rainbow Caught By NASA's PUNCH MissionOn April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument (which captured its first light on April 14) took images through all three of its polarizers in succession for the first time to create this view. The image is colorized to show the polarization (or angle) of the zodiacal light, a faint glow from dust orbiting the Sun. Hue indicates direction, and saturation indicates degree of polarization. For example, a pastel green feature would be slightly polarized in the horizontal direction, while a deep blue feature would be strongly polarized in a diagonal direction. The Sun’s location is marked with a star symbol. Other stars in the sky appear white because they are mostly unpolarized compared to the 7% polarization of the zodiacal light. The compact Pleiades star cluster appears just above center, and the V-shaped Hyades star cluster appears to the upper left of the Pleiades.

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Mesmerizing Cosmic Dust Rainbow Caught By NASA's PUNCH MissionOn April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument (which captured its first light on April 14) took images through all three of its polarizers in succession for the first time to create this view. The image is colorized to show the polarization (or angle) of the zodiacal light, a faint glow from dust orbiting the Sun. Hue indicates direction, and saturation indicates degree of polarization. For example, a pastel green feature would be slightly polarized in the horizontal direction, while a deep blue feature would be strongly polarized in a diagonal direction. The Sun’s location is marked with a star symbol. Other stars in the sky appear white because they are mostly unpolarized compared to the 7% polarization of the zodiacal light. The compact Pleiades star cluster appears just above center, and the V-shaped Hyades star cluster appears to the upper left of the Pleiades.
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Mesmerizing Cosmic Dust Rainbow Caught By NASA's PUNCH Mission

clock-iconMay 16, 2025
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Solar Waves Squash And Massively Heat Up Jupiter’s Magnetic Field 2-3 Times A MonthA hubble image of the planet with glowing blue aurorae on his north pole

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Solar Waves Squash And Massively Heat Up Jupiter’s Magnetic Field 2-3 Times A MonthA hubble image of the planet with glowing blue aurorae on his north pole
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Solar Waves Squash And Massively Heat Up Jupiter’s Magnetic Field 2-3 Times A Month

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Astonishing Video Shows 2 Million Kilometer Helical Structure Emerge From The SunHelical structure emerging from the Sun.

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Astonishing Video Shows 2 Million Kilometer Helical Structure Emerge From The SunHelical structure emerging from the Sun.
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Astonishing Video Shows 2 Million Kilometer Helical Structure Emerge From The Sun

clock-iconMarch 31, 2025
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Visible Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) Might Be Falling ApartThe tail of the comet is clearly visible in the sky with the silhoutte of an observatory seen rising from the dark ground.

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Visible Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) Might Be Falling ApartThe tail of the comet is clearly visible in the sky with the silhoutte of an observatory seen rising from the dark ground.
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Visible Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) Might Be Falling Apart

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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For YearsWhen Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986 the ice giant looked almost featureless. Now JWST has shown it has rings, storms, and a bright north polar cap.

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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For YearsWhen Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986 the ice giant looked almost featureless. Now JWST has shown it has rings, storms, and a bright north polar cap.
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We’ve Only Been To Uranus Once And The Freak Timing May Have Misled Us For Years

clock-iconNovember 12, 2024
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Watch Turbulence Of Plasma Swirling In The Solar Atmosphere In Stunning New VideoTwo concentric circles. In the middle one a view of the Sun in extreme ultraviole. IN the ring around it, the subtle and turbulent motion of the solar wind, strands of it move in chaotic ways away from the Sun.

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Watch Turbulence Of Plasma Swirling In The Solar Atmosphere In Stunning New VideoTwo concentric circles. In the middle one a view of the Sun in extreme ultraviole. IN the ring around it, the subtle and turbulent motion of the solar wind, strands of it move in chaotic ways away from the Sun.
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Watch Turbulence Of Plasma Swirling In The Solar Atmosphere In Stunning New Video

clock-iconSeptember 27, 2024
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Sun Mystery Solved: How The Solar Wind Soars Across The Solar SystemArtist render shows the Sun in the middle with a 3D graphic of the two probes at either side

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Sun Mystery Solved: How The Solar Wind Soars Across The Solar SystemArtist render shows the Sun in the middle with a 3D graphic of the two probes at either side
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Sun Mystery Solved: How The Solar Wind Soars Across The Solar System

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Head-On Aurora-Causing Solar Storms Are The Ones We Really Need To Worry Aboutbrightly coloured aurora in the night sky over a lake and snow-capped mountains

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Head-On Aurora-Causing Solar Storms Are The Ones We Really Need To Worry Aboutbrightly coloured aurora in the night sky over a lake and snow-capped mountains
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Head-On Aurora-Causing Solar Storms Are The Ones We Really Need To Worry About

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Cause Of Mysterious Lunar Swirls Might Be Below The Moon's SurfaceStrange swirls of lighter material on the Moon.

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Cause Of Mysterious Lunar Swirls Might Be Below The Moon's SurfaceStrange swirls of lighter material on the Moon.
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Cause Of Mysterious Lunar Swirls Might Be Below The Moon's Surface

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Strange Letter-Shaped Structures Found In The Electrified Layers Of Earth’s AtmosphereArtist impression of the northern lights from space over the limb of our planet with the Sun behind

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Strange Letter-Shaped Structures Found In The Electrified Layers Of Earth’s AtmosphereArtist impression of the northern lights from space over the limb of our planet with the Sun behind
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Strange Letter-Shaped Structures Found In The Electrified Layers Of Earth’s Atmosphere

clock-iconJuly 1, 2024
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Negative Ions Detected On Far Side Of The Moon By Instrument Aboard Chinese LanderChang’e-6 lander on the far side of the Moon.

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Negative Ions Detected On Far Side Of The Moon By Instrument Aboard Chinese LanderChang’e-6 lander on the far side of the Moon.
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Negative Ions Detected On Far Side Of The Moon By Instrument Aboard Chinese Lander

clock-iconJune 6, 2024
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Watch The Sun Briefly Pull Off The Devil Comet’s TailComet Pons-Brooks (lower left) with its tail on the point of breaking off. Jupiter appears nearby, while the coronal mass ejection is swirling off the Sun, which is out of view to the right.

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Watch The Sun Briefly Pull Off The Devil Comet’s TailComet Pons-Brooks (lower left) with its tail on the point of breaking off. Jupiter appears nearby, while the coronal mass ejection is swirling off the Sun, which is out of view to the right.
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Watch The Sun Briefly Pull Off The Devil Comet’s Tail

clock-iconApril 23, 2024
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