Aussie plants facing extinction
The top 100 Australian plant species at risk of extinction have been identified by Threatened Species Recovery Hub research.
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All systems go as Parker Solar Probe begins second sun orbit
On Jan. 19, 2019, just 161 days after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called ...
The sun in 2018
This montage of 365 images shows the changing activity of our sun through the eyes of ESA's Proba-2 satellite during 2018. The images were taken by the satellite's SWAP camera, which works at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths ...
Interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua probably crash into the sun every 30 years
On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object, named 1I/2017 U1 (aka. 'Oumuamua). In the months that ...
What winter solstice rituals tell us about indigenous people
On the day of winter solstice, many Native American communities will hold religious ceremonies or community events.
Solar activity research provides insight into sun's past, future
Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo of Southwest Research Institute and José Manuel Vaquero of the University of Extremadura have developed a new technique for looking at historic solar data to distinguish trustworthy observations ...
An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole
We've sent numerous missions into space to study the Sun; past and present solar explorers include ESA's Proba-2 (PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy 2) and SOHO (SOlar Heliospheric Observatory) probes, NASA's SDO and STEREO missions ...
Image: Finding an elusive star behind a supernova
Located 65 million light-years away is a blue supergiant star that once existed inside a cluster of young stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 3938, as shown in this artist's concept. It exploded as a supernova in 2017 and Hubble ...
Cosmic detective work: Why we care about space rocks
The entire history of human existence is a tiny blip in our solar system's 4.5-billion-year history. No one was around to see planets forming and undergoing dramatic changes before settling in their present configuration. ...
NASA's Parker spacecraft makes first close approach to sun
A NASA spacecraft has made its first close approach to the sun, just 2 1/2 months after liftoff.
