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2024 also featured the brightest comet since Hale-Bopp passed by in 1997. The comet in question was Comet A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, and it appeared in our skies during October. The comet ...

Images of meteor-like fireballs have been spotted in images of the sun’s corona—it’s mysteriously hotter outer atmosphere. They were sent back by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter ...

"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Dietmar Pilz, the European Space Agency's (ESA ... is to block out the sun's blinding glare in order to study the corona—a faint, crownlike halo of plasma that surrounds the sun.

Insights from the collected data will have implications for predicting space weather ... switchbacks within the magnetic field of the solar corona. In these areas, the magnetic field carried ...

The stockings were all hung by the corona with care ... But in the six years since the probe has been zipping through outer space and flying by the Sun? Not so much. Let's face it, the ...

ESA has decoupled the two satellites of the Proba-3 mission. They are due to start their scientific work in a few weeks.

"This mission is ushering a new golden era of space exploration ... It has already shown them that the Sun's corona is wrinkled with spikes and valleys, contrary to what was expected, while ...