Our Sun is a steady and everlasting companion. Reliable like a clock, its apparent passage across the sky allows us to measure time. The Sun and its path is also the source of Earth’s seasons. But in many respects, our Sun is far from calm and unchanging. Close up, the Sun shows extensive variation and ...
In the grand tapestry of the cosmos, there exists a celestial wonder that has captured the imagination of humanity for eons — the Milky Way. Spanning vast stretches of the night sky, this cosmic masterpiece is more than just a distant spiral of stars. The Milky Way is humanity’s heavenly home, a beacon of mystery ...
What do you feel when you see an aurora, and what does this have to do with solar activity? Otherwise known as the northern or southern lights, an aurora is light emitted by upper atmospheric particles as they interact with energized ones from the magnetosphere. It’s an awe-inspiring and otherworldly event that those living at ...
Our world today would not manage to survive without technology, whether it is as basic as electricity or as advanced as the Internet. Businesses all across the world use these to get work done on a regular basis. So can solar storms really knock all of these out? What if our entire globe went dark, ...
Astronomers have resolved the decade-long solar abundance crisis: the conflict between the internal structure of the Sun as determined from solar oscillations (helioseismology) and the structure derived from the fundamental theory of stellar evolution, which in turn relies on measurements of the present-day Sun’s chemical composition. New calculations of the physics of the Sun’s atmosphere ...
Earth is very water-rich compared to other rocky planets in the Solar System, with oceans covering more than 70 percent of its surface. Scientists have long puzzled over where all that water came from. Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be ...
On April 28, 2021, at 0933 UT (3:33 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time), NASA’s Parker Solar Probe reached the Sun’s extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and spent five hours there. The spacecraft is the first to enter the outer boundaries of our Sun. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, were announced at a press conference ...
Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source. Solar wind is now the proposed source of Earth’s water A University of Glasgow-led international team of researchers, including those from Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Centre (SSTC), found the ...
Do you know that simply being out in the sun, you soak up the healing power of the sun’s rays, along with some vitamin D. When we think of detoxification and healing, we usually think of embarking on a restrictive diet, drinking juices, or having a foot soak or a massage. Actually, we don’t really need ...
There are so many amazing facts about space. Scientists are making new discoveries all the time and it’s difficult to keep abreast of all the new information. Hopefully, you can learn something new from these facts and you would be surprised just how many people don’t know much about space at all. 4 facts about ...