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Aurora alert: Powerful geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights across US and Europe tonight

G3 geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for Sept. 16. Aurora hunters keep your eyes on the skies! A combination of powerful solar events has prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) to issue a geomagnetic storm warning for today (Sept. 16). This is great news for those wishing to see t ...
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Posted: Sept. 16, 2024 Category: Solar Storms By: Dobrijevic, Daisy

Event Horizon Telescope Captures First Black Hole Image

The Event Horizon Telescope, a collaboration of radio telescopes throughout the world that work in unison to capture images of supermassive black holes, just achieved its best picture yet. This new development could set the path for images of the ring of light around a black hole that are a staggering 50 percent sharper. This could allow us to s ...
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Posted: Sept. 15, 2024 Category: Black Holes By: Pappas, Stephanie

SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut plays 'Star Wars' song in music video beamed from space

"As we travel around our beautiful planet Earth on this five-day mission, we wanted to share this special musical moment with you." Polaris Dawn astronaut Sarah Gillis, a violinist, released a new music video from space this morning. Just yesterday (Sept. 12), Gillis was one of two Polaris Dawn astronauts to perform a historic spacewalk, the ...
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Posted: Sept. 14, 2024 Category: International Space Station (ISS) By: Vanelslande, Filip

NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster issues making it difficult for the spacecraft to stay pointed at Earth when calling home. Unless Voyager 1 could make a switch to a different thruster se ...
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Posted: Sept. 13, 2024 Category: Solar System By: Dobrijevic, Daisy

Sun fires off X-class solar flare, increasing aurora viewing chances into weekend

It's been a busy week for solar activity with more powerful solar flares and geomagnetic storm possibilities in the forecast. A parade of solar activity continues to flow from the sun this week, opening up more chances to spot the aurora across the United States this weekend. On Thursday morning (Sept. 12), a sunspot region that has not bee ...
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Posted: Sept. 13, 2024 Category: Solar Storms By: Pappas, Stephanie