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In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

Eleven-Year Cycle. The astronomers will be part of a “solar patrol” established to warn astronauts against possible danger from the sun, which by 1968 or 1969 should reach a peak in its eleven ...

Great question! Assuming you’re referring specifically to the orbital period — in other words, how long comets take to make one revolution around the Sun, or a cometary “year ...

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The Laboratory of Solar Astronomy at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that this black cloud of plasma flowed from the Sun's corona and gradually dissipated ...

AN astronomy expert has warned that a giant asteroid could wipe out Ireland with major earthquakes and tsunamis, saying: “It’s a real danger.” David Moore from Astronomy Ireland ...