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See the Sun’s surface in higher detail than ever before in new telescope images
Hannah Schunker, University of Newcastle The Sun doesn’t just fuel almost all life on Earth. It’s also our…
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study
Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a…
Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where − and where not − to look for life in the universe
Black holes, like the one in this illustration, can spray powerful jets. S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF), CC BY-SA David…