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The sun’s acoustic heartbeat just revealed a hidden shift in the 11-year cycle — magnetic activity now squeezed into a thin skin just beneath the solar surface
Every 11 years, the Sun flips its magnetic poles, driving a cycle of sunspot eruptions, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections that can knock out power grids and fry satellites. For decades, ...
In a teleconference Oct. 15, representatives from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the Sun has reached the peak level in its current cycle of activity ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN
Forty years of solar data finds our sun is changing from the inside out
The Sun’s 11-year cycle still drives flares, aurorae, and geomagnetic storms, but the machinery under that familiar rhythm ...
"Thanks to Solar Orbiter, we're getting to know our star better than ever." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The joint European ...
"This work shows without a doubt that Parker Solar Probe is diving deep with every orbit into the region where the solar wind is born." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
The highest-energy sunlight is too bright. Astronomers have detected gamma rays coming from the sun that are more energetic than any we have seen before, and there are more of them than any of our ...
Although I’ve spent decades as a deep-sky observer, I’ve always been fascinated by the Sun. Solar observing offers clear advantages: It’s accessible anywhere, immune to light pollution, and doesn’t ...
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