Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri (near) ...
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Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...
The Earth’s magnetosphere is a protective shroud that blocks charged particles and cosmic rays blasted out by the Sun. The ...
First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you face, other than capturing your enemy and/or convincing them to step into ...
This year marks 30 years of SOHO observing our sun, an extraordinary milestone for a mission originally expected to last only ...