30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
...to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar Orbiter will perform a close-up study of our Sun and the Sun-Earth connection to better understand the behaviour of the star on which all life on Earth depends. At its closest point...
11 August 2015
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko puts on a show as captured by Rosetta camera OSIRIS
... a while now that such emissions occur on comets – especially at and after perihelion (the point in orbit at which an object such as a comet is closest to the sun), this is the first time we are seeing this occur with such stunning clarity. It’s just...
17 October 2015
Photos released of large hole in sun’s corona
... Centre on Wednesday forecast continued activity through Friday, though at a lower level, as the hole in the corona moved west across the sun. Sky-watchers hit the Internet with their photos, of course, from as far south as Northern Ireland, Denmark...
12 October 2016
Proxima Centauri reveals yet more intrigue as a cycle of dramatic sunspots is observed
... occurs) causes magnetic field lines to break through the visible surface (photosphere) of the Sun. As the lines break through the surface, one sunspot of a certain polarity is formed and where the lines plunge back down again, it creates another...
07 July 2015
New Horizons sees reddish brown Pluto: problems of perception in space
..., in most of our astronomy textbooks, Pluto was either blue or gray. We assumed, instinctively, than an object so far from the Sun couldn’t possibly look any different – and such assumptions, in fact, have colored (pun intended) a lot of theories...
22 August 2016
Massive Young Star Discovered
... star is estimated to be over 30 times the mass of the Sun, with the surrounding disc about two or three times the mass of the Sun. The researchers will continue to observe the star and the surrounding region with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array...
