The US Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has released a mesmerizing video showing close-ups of powerful solar flares. NASA describes the filmed phenomenon rather poetically: Brighter than a shimmering ghost, faster than the flick of a black cat’s tail, the Sun has bewitched us just in time for Halloween. ” The video was filmed by […]
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Black shadow on Earth. What a solar eclipse looked like from space – photo
NASA’s GOES-East satellite captured yesterday’s solar eclipse from space. This is reported by Space.com. As noted, the eclipse was partial: the Moon was too far from the Earth to completely cover the Sun. From the surface of our planet, the bright edge of the Sun was visible, which resembled a ring of fire. However, […]
An annular solar eclipse will occur in June: when to look
An annular solar eclipse will occur on Thursday 10 June. This is reported on the NASA Eclipse website. It is noted that the eclipse will not be total, but annular. Full occurs when the Moon completely overlaps the Sun in the firmament. Annular happens when the Moon is farther from the Earth than during […]
Fusion in China. Record set on “artificial sun” EAST – photo
The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak EASP in China managed to reach a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius, and it was maintained for 101 seconds. This is five times more than the last record, writes the website of the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). Moreover, on the […]
Solar Orbiter probe for the first time ejections on the Sun from a unique angle – video
The Solar Orbiter was the first to record an eruption on the Sun from being “behind” it as viewed from Earth. This was reported by the press service of the European Space Agency (ESA). As noted, coronal mass ejections were recorded on February 10. Then Solar Orbiter approached the Sun up to half the […]
The Chang’e 5 probe showed the Earth and the Sun from the Lagrange point L1 1.5 million km from us – photo
After dropping a capsule with lunar soil samples over China, the orbital probe of the Chang’e 5 mission was sent to the L1 Lagrange point from us in the direction of the Sun, since it had enough fuel left to perform various additional experiments and observations. Since March, the probe has been located about 1.5 […]