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The Sun’s Activity Cycle Is Reaching Its Peak Early

Our Sun is a steady and everlasting companion. Reliable like a clock, its apparent passage across the sky allows us to measure time. The Sun and its path is also the source of Earth’s seasons. But in many respects, our Sun is far from calm and unchanging. Close up, the Sun shows extensive variation and ...

Troy Oakes

Image of the Sun releasing a solar flare, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Galactic Odyssey: Exploring the Timeless Wonders of the Milky Way

In the grand tapestry of the cosmos, there exists a celestial wonder that has captured the imagination of humanity for eons — the Milky Way. Spanning vast stretches of the night sky, this cosmic masterpiece is more than just a distant spiral of stars. The Milky Way is humanity’s heavenly home, a beacon of mystery ...

Viena Abdon

A woman looking up at the Milky Way.

Can Solar Storms Really Knock Out Your Phone and the Internet?

Our world today would not manage to survive without technology, whether it is as basic as electricity or as advanced as the Internet. Businesses all across the world use these to get work done on a regular basis. So can solar storms really knock all of these out? What if our entire globe went dark, ...

Haidene Go

A solar storm.

Sun’s Chemical Composition Resolved by New Calculations

Astronomers have resolved the decade-long solar abundance crisis: the conflict between the internal structure of the Sun as determined from solar oscillations (helioseismology) and the structure derived from the fundamental theory of stellar evolution, which in turn relies on measurements of the present-day Sun’s chemical composition. New calculations of the physics of the Sun’s atmosphere ...

Troy Oakes

Solar flares on the Sun.

Does Earth’s Water Actually Come From the Scorching Sun?

Earth is very water-rich compared to other rocky planets in the Solar System, with oceans covering more than 70 percent of its surface. Scientists have long puzzled over where all that water came from. Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be ...

Science Unmasked

Sun seen through a curling wave of water.

NASA’s Amazing Parker Solar Probe Has ‘Touched’ the Sun for the First Time

On April 28, 2021, at 0933 UT (3:33 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time), NASA’s Parker Solar Probe reached the Sun’s extended solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and spent five hours there. The spacecraft is the first to enter the outer boundaries of our Sun. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, were announced at a press conference ...

Troy Oakes

A spacecraft has touched the Sun.

Does Earth’s Water Actually Come From the Scorching Sun?

Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source. Solar wind is now the proposed source of Earth’s water A University of Glasgow-led international team of researchers, including those from Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Centre (SSTC), found the ...

Troy Oakes

Graphic of the Sun, solar winds, and itokawa.

Harness the Healing Power of the Sun for a Powerful Detox

Do you know that simply being out in the sun, you soak up the healing power of the sun’s rays, along with some vitamin D. When we think of detoxification and healing, we usually think of embarking on a restrictive diet, drinking juices, or having a foot soak or a massage. Actually, we don’t really need ...

Raven Montmorency

Woman with sun glasses sits by the Mediterranean Sea, sunbathing.

4 Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know About Space

There are so many amazing facts about space. Scientists are making new discoveries all the time and it’s difficult to keep abreast of all the new information. Hopefully, you can learn something new from these facts and you would be surprised just how many people don’t know much about space at all. 4 facts about ...

Troy Oakes

Astronaut on a space walk reaching toward the camera with Earth and the Sun seen in the background.