I've studied the sun for 23 years. Here's what happened during the last solar maximum and what to expect from this one.

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Four images of a solar flare at different wavelengths.
The upcoming solar maximum should cause more frequent solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

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The Lyrid meteor shower could give you the chance to see up to 20 shooting stars this weekend. Here's how to watch.

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A shot of the night sky shows the milky way dappled with shooting stars behind trees outlined in the foreground.
The Lyrid meteor shower can offer about 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour

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Why SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket looks unlike anything the company has ever built before

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SpaceX Super Heavy first-stage booster with the black side of its Starship second stage booster showing.
SpaceX's starship is designed to be the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built.

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SpaceX's Starship launch kicked up soil and sand that rained down on a nearby beachside town 5 miles away

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The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.

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Elon Musk congratulated SpaceX for an 'exciting' launch of Starship after the rocket exploded

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A photomontage shows Starship blowing up on one side and a picture of Elon Musk sitting in the control room on the other.
Elon Musk sat in the control room on Thursday watching the launch of Starship, which exploded about 4 minutes into the launch.

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Watch how SpaceX launched Starship, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built, on its first orbital flight

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Starship minutes before the launch attempt that was aborted on April 17, 2023.

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A weird flash lit up the sky over Kyiv. NASA denied it was a falling satellite, and experts still can't confirm what caused it.

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A screengrab shows a flash of light in front of an illuminated tail over the cityscape of Kyiv. The timestamp reads 2023-04-19 21:7:47
A screengrab from a video shows the huge flash of light illuminating the skies over Kyiv on Wednesday.

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How to watch today's hybrid solar eclipse — the rarest type of eclipse — even if you don't live near Australia where it's happening

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Sequence of the 2019 annular solar eclipse.
Hybrid eclipses are the most rare type of solar eclipse there is.

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Mysterious glowing 'SpaceX spirals' in the night sky seem to be linked to rocket launches

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In this photo provided by Christopher Hayden, a light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appears amid the aurora for a few minutes in the Alaska skies near Fairbanks, Saturday, April 15, 2023.
In this photo provided by Christopher Hayden, a light baby blue spiral appears amid the aurora for a few minutes in the Alaska skies near Fairbanks, on April 15, 2023.

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Elon Musk joked that if aliens came to earth he would get the most-liked tweet of all time, and that he's 'very familiar with space stuff'

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Elon Musk looks at his phone with a display of a space capsule entering orbit behind him.
Elon Musk.

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