An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift of the Sun, a change in frequency of the lines in the solar ...
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Oct 8, 2020
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Three of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft's instruments, including Imperial's magnetometer, have released their first data.
Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2020
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A trio of researchers, two with Philipps-University Marburg, the other with the University of Würzburg, has discovered how a sun compass works in the brain of the desert locust. In their paper published in Proceedings of ...
In cosmic comparison, the Sun is a bore. While the brightness of some other stars with similar characteristics fluctuates strongly, the Sun's variations are much more moderate. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for ...
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Sep 22, 2020
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A new theory published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If confirmed, the presence of an early stellar ...
Astronomy
Aug 18, 2020
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The first images from ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun.
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2020
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Only a few months after its launch, ESA's Solar Orbiter has captured images of the sun from a previously unattainable distance. Among other things, these images reveal structures in the sun's atmosphere that could possibly ...
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Jul 16, 2020
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The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed study, including searching for evidence of life outside the solar system. In research led by the University of Göttingen, the RedDots team of astronomers ...
Astronomy
Jun 25, 2020
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A team of researchers working on the Borexino project has announced that they have observed carbon/nitrogen/oxygen (CNO) fusion neutrinos from the sun for the first time. Co-spokesman for the group, Gioacchino Ranucci, a ...
By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline for when stars like the sun start blasting high-energy radiation into space, as reported in our ...
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Jun 18, 2020
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