The activity cycle of the sun – where the number of sunspots increase and decrease – has been monitored regularly for around 250 years, but the use of space-based telescopes has given us a whole new perspective of our ...
Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2018
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Last Wednesday, all locations on our planet enjoyed roughly the same number of hours of day and night. This event, called an equinox, takes place twice a year – around 20 March and then again around 23 September.
Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2019
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The sun experiences both calm and tempestuous periods of activity. At its most active, our star can fling out multiple bursts of particles in a single day in events known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Particles within ...
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2015
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The unique, cosmopolitan sexual character of London's Soho should be preserved in the face of gentrification, a new study argues.
Social Sciences
May 16, 2018
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