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Radio emissions detected about 24,855 miles (40,000 kilometers) above a dark region on the Sun have aurora-like qualities, according to a team of astronomers that studied the emissions.
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Feast your eyes on Uranus’ glowing edges. We’re serious—a team of astronomers has spotted a new aurora on the seventh planet from the Sun, glowing at infrared wavelengths.
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NASA’s groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe continues to set new milestones, diving continuously deeper towards the Sun, and offering insights into the star’s enigmatic atmosphere and how it affects space weather.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Two giant holes, 18 to 30 times the size of Earth, have appeared on the surface of the sun.
- They could send 1.8 million mph solar winds toward Earth.
- They're called coronal holes, which are cooler areas that don't glow as bright as others.
In a little over two weeks since its launch, India’s Aditya-L1 mission started collecting data to help analyze the behavior of particles that surround Earth.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory