Articles for tag: Astronomy, solar flares, solar science, sun

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Our Sun Is More Mysterious Than We Think, New Discoveries Show

Suhail Ahmed

  The star we treat as a familiar backdrop to daily life has quietly become one of the strangest laboratories in modern physics. Over the past few years, spacecraft have plunged into its blistering atmosphere, neutrino detectors have listened for ghostly particles from its core, and radio telescopes have watched it flicker in ways that ...

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Our Sun’s Secret Life: What Scientists Are Learning About Our Star

Suhail Ahmed

  We like to think we know the Sun. It rises, it sets, it burns steadily in our skies, a comforting backdrop to everything else that changes. But in observatories from Hawaii to space-based platforms trailing Earth’s orbit, scientists are discovering that our star is far stranger, more dynamic, and more finely tuned than our ...