An illustration of the heliosphere being pelted with cosmic rays from outside our solar system. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab Eleven billion…
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The Arase satellite captured data about electrons accelerated from very high altitudes. Credit: ERG science center Electrons arriving from the Sun are propelled by electrical…
Illustration of a space hurricane, created using the observation data. Credit: Qing-He Zhang, Shandong University The first observations of a space hurricane have been revealed…
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have made a discovery about how energy generated by electrically-charged particles in the solar wind flows into…
An optical image of the starfield near Proxima Cen. The two bright stars are (left) Alpha and (right) Beta Centauri. Proxima Centauri, the closest star…
Artist’s impression of flare from our neighbouring star Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet. Credit: Mark Myers/OzGrav Stellar Flares With a Chance of…
[embedded content] The Sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been…
This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during…
This composite image shows a SOHO image of the Sun and an artist’s impression of Earth’s magnetosphere. Power grid failures, massive blackouts, widespread damage to…
Multiple cycles of the irregular, but roughly 11-year cycle of solar and geomagnetic activity is mapped onto a regular solar cycle clock with increasing time…
Here is an artist’s impression of what the red light that streaked the night sky over Japan in 620 A.D. may have looked like. Nearly…