Don’t get stuck at work during the total solar eclipse on Monday! It’s an event you don’t want to miss.Kohei Hara/LeoPatrizi/Getty Images/Business Insider You don’t want to miss April’s total solar eclipse. The US won’t see another one until 2044. But this rare astronomical event occurs in the middle of working hours on a Monday. … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Eclipses inspire awe and bring people together to observe a stunning celestial phenomenon, but these cosmic events also allow scientists to unravel the mysteries of the solar system. During the total solar eclipse on April … Read more
There is a gap in our observations of the Sun: part of the atmosphere is effectively invisible to our telescopes. However, images taken from Earth during a solar eclipse fill that gap and provide unprecedented insight into our star’s hidden layer. But capturing these images requires expertise, special equipment and a lot of patience. . … Read more
The magnificence of a solar eclipse is unique to our world; Nowhere else in the solar system does a planet’s moon block the sun’s light so perfectly. The rapid and transient darkness of these events affects many things on Earth, including animal behavior and waves in the ionosphere. Researchers have now found that cumulus cloud … Read more
If you are on the path of totality for the April 8 total solar eclipse, you experience a brief period of darkness – totality – lasting a few seconds or minutes. This is the only safe time to avoid looking directly at the sun solar eclipse glasses. If you observe the sunDuring the totality of … Read more
Scientists have discovered that a potentially habitable planet is being stripped of its atmosphere, a process that could ultimately make the world, Trappist-1e, inhospitable to life. The stripping appears to be caused by electrical currents created as the planet races around its red dwarf host star. It is an important discovery because the Trappist-1 system, … Read more
While taking a final look around the Saturn system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of the planet’s giant moon Titan. These images were acquired by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on September 13, 2017. They are among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth. (NASA – image credit) “Are we alone?” It’s the age-old question … Read more
NASAs New horizons mission, which we encountered Pluto in 2015 now rides through the deepest depths of the Kuiper beltfaces a cosmic dust storm that suggests there may be more going on in Earth’s outer reaches solar system than we imagine. Space is filled with dust made up of tiny particles just microns – a … Read more
The sun is developing coronal holes, one of several forms of solar activity that could peak this year.NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory The sun has a big year in 2024, starting with a total solar eclipse in the US. As the sun reaches its maximum activity, you should also keep an eye out for the Northern … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already proven itself adept at peering into the past by imaging objects at enormous distances, but a new breakthrough may have made the powerful instrument behave almost like a scientific crystal ball behaves, staring into Earth’s distant future. solar system. The JWST carried out its prediction when it … Read more