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400 quadrillion times brighter than the Sun – scientists recorded the most powerful ultraviolet flare in the history of observations
(ORDO NEWS) — In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature Astronomy , scientists from the Purple Mountains Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics presented a new method for measuring moderately saturated sources with the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope on board the Swift (Swift/UVOT) satellite. This innovative technique allowed GRB 220101A to be identified as the most energetic ultraviolet/optical flare ever…
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Scientists found out when our Sun will die
(ORDO NEWS) — Employees of the European Space Agency (ESA) while working on the Gaia Milky Way project were engaged in compiling a map of the life of our Sun. The main goal of this project is to compile a map of the Milky Way. This was reported by the European Space Agency. Astronomers carefully monitor how different stars are located in the sky, how they move. Along with this,…
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High-energy protons continue to bombard the Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — For the second day in a row, high-energy protons from a solar flare bombard the Earth. This is called a “radiation storm” (class S1), and it was caused by a huge eruption on July 28th. The explosion site was hidden from view behind the northwestern edge of the sun. Satellites in Earth orbit registered an M4 class solar flare, but the main explosion was stronger. It was…
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Sun will soon reach its maximum — something for humanity to prepare for
(ORDO NEWS) — Very soon, the Sun will reach its maximum activity. This phenomenon is called solar maximum. Scientists have told what humanity can expect when this happens. This is reported by ScienceAlert. The latest research from NASA shows that the solar maximum will catch up with the star in 2025. It always occurs in the middle of one solar cycle, which lasts about 11 Earth years. Scientists suggest that…
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Strong magnetic storm covers Earth: how to protect yourself
(ORDO NEWS) — On Wednesday, May 24, scientists promise the peak of a several-day magnetic storm that will last until May 26. This will cause deterioration of well-being and exacerbation of chronic diseases in many people. The forecast was provided by the Odesa Observatory of the Radio Astronomy Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Separate disturbed periods are expected today. By evening, the magnetic storm is expected…
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Where in the Milky Way did the sun form?
(ORDO NEWS) — Stars such as our Sun form in common clusters with other similar luminaries from a single gas cloud, which provides them with an identical chemical composition. Strikingly, by examining more than 100,000 stars within 325 light-years of Earth, astronomers have been able to find only two stars that are as similar as possible to the Sun. How is this possible? It is likely that at some point…
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Astronomers have combined 90,000 photos of the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — What you are actually seeing is 90,000 individual photographs stitched together to create an accurate image of the star at the center of the solar system. Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Günzel used NASA data and satellite imagery to create this image, which they called the Helios Confluence. In this close-up shot, orange filaments of plasma can be seen bouncing off the surface of the Sun. “We’re…
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Sun probably swallowed the planet in the past
(ORDO NEWS) — There is a hypothesis that in the distant past, the Sun swallowed a planet the size of Neptune. This planet was actively gaining mass, using “building material” near the star, and at some point it simply “fell” into the Sun. Why did this hypothesis arise? Between Mercury and the Sun there is an anomalously empty region that could only be cleared by a massive cosmic body that…
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Astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that weighs 30 billion times more than our Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — At the center of the Abell 1201 cluster is a huge elliptical galaxy, and at its center is a supermassive black hole. Previous research showed that the object was larger than most known black holes. The last of them is one of the largest objects in the Universe, it is larger than some galaxies. Its mass is estimated to be about 32 billion times that of the…
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Water molecules on Earth are older than the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have determined that water molecules travel from the interstellar medium directly into protoplanetary disks around young stars, and then into icy bodies such as comets, which can carry them to planets. Thus, water molecules in the solar system, including on Earth, arose in the interstellar medium even before the formation of the sun. Water is important not only for the emergence and existence of life forms…
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A flare on the Sun left part of the Earth without communication
(ORDO NEWS) — It is known that on March 11, a coronal emission occurred on the far side of the Sun. It caused a strong magnetic storm that covered the Earth 4 days later. A flare on the Sun left part of the planet without communication. Eruptions of coronal (dark) plasma on the Sun were recorded thanks to NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory, as well as another observatory (SOHO). By the…
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Earth feels the effects of a powerful eruption on the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Recently, scientists have recorded an unprecedented level of solar activity. A colossal eruption on the far side of the Sun sent shockwaves towards Earth. This event once again underlines the enormous power of our star and its influence on our planet. On March 12, 2023 at 11:36 pm ET, a colossal coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred from the non-Earth side of the Sun. The researchers are now…
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An X2-class flare occurred on the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Satellites in Earth orbit have detected an X2-class solar flare. The source is the outgoing spot AR3234. NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded an extreme ultraviolet flare. Radiation from the flare ionized Earth’s upper atmosphere, causing shortwave radio blackouts over North and South America. Aviators and radio amateurs may have noticed signal loss and other unusual propagation effects at frequencies below 30 MHz up to an hour after…
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Astronomers trace the origin of water to the appearance of the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — A star 1,300 light-years from Earth may have just revealed one of the solar system’s best-kept secrets. Its name is V883 Orionis. This is a young star, surrounded by a huge disk of matter, day merge into orbiting planets. It is in this disk that scientists have unequivocally found water vapor circulating along with all the other dust and gas that are destined to become part of…
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Is the sun mad? Anomalous activity of the Sun in 2023 puzzled scientists
(ORDO NEWS) — Since the beginning of 2023, there has been an unprecedented surge in solar activity. While for the whole of 2022, scientists registered only 7 outbreaks of the highest X score (and in 2021 – only 3 in general), by the middle of this February, there were already 5 of them! Another super-powerful outbreak, also classified as class X, occurred on March 3. It led to the fact…
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An M8.5 class flare occurred on the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Sunspot AR3234 exploded yesterday, Feb. 28 at 1750 GMT, causing an M8.6 class solar flare, which is only slightly below class X. The pulsed burst of X-rays ionized Earth‘s upper atmosphere, causing shortwave radio blackouts over the Americas. Aviators and radio amateurs may have noticed signal loss below 30 MHz for more than 30 minutes after the flash. A weak CME was also associated with this event,…
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Physicist explained how the Sun and the Moon affect the occurrence of earthquakes
(ORDO NEWS) — The entire history of the Earth is a constant succession of large and small tremors. Hundreds of earthquakes occur every year on the planet. How the Sun, the Moon and other celestial bodies are involved in this process. the force of attraction between the Sun and the Earth makes our planet shrink and decompress like a tennis ball. This affects the state of the layers that make…
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Comet that flew to the Sun 30 thousand years ago was given a name
(ORDO NEWS) — The Minor Planet Center (MPC) has named the comet, which is called the main comet of 2024. She received the designation C / 2023 A3. The space object was first discovered in images taken on Jan. 9 by China‘s Zijinshan Observatory. A month and a half later, the ATLAS automated telescope took independent images of the same object. The analysis carried out showed that this is a…
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In the core of the Earth revealed a hot ball up to the temperature of the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Seismologists from the Australian National University have discovered a previously unknown fifth layer in the Earth‘s structure. Previously, it was believed that there are four such layers: the inner core, outer core, crust and mantle. To better understand the structure of the planet, scientists analyzed data on about 200 earthquakes of magnitude 6 and above that occurred over the past 10 years. They measured the speed at…
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Sun emitted a powerful X-class solar flare
(ORDO NEWS) — The Sun released a powerful solar flare that peaked on February 17, 2023. NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which constantly monitors the Sun, captured the event. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet radiation that releases extremely hot material in flares. It is dyed turquoise. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and eruptions on the Sun can affect radio communications, power grids, navigation signals and…
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Sun is a giant hydrogen bomb with a mass of 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
(ORDO NEWS) — Looking at pictures or videos showing the Sun, it seems that we have a giant fireball in front of us. However, there is no fire there and cannot be, because fire (combustion reaction) needs oxygen, which is critically scarce in its pure form on the Sun (about 900 oxygen atoms per one million hydrogen atoms). The sun is a giant hydrogen bomb that keeps exploding Due to…
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Highest-class flare occurred on the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — A powerful flare occurred on the Sun on the night of February 18. As shown in the graph, the X2.2 flare occurred shortly before midnight. It was preceded by several weak class C flares. Previously, the Sun was unusually active in late December 2022 – early January 2023. Then, several class C flares occurred on the star. Scientists called the surge in solar activity observed at the…
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Why is the true color of the Sun white?
(ORDO NEWS) — If you ask children or even adults to draw the sun, then they will most likely reach for a yellow pencil or felt-tip pen, which will be used to draw a yellow circle. This is not surprising, since we, living on Earth, see the Sun quite often, and it is yellow. But is it really that simple? The human eye is a poor optical instrument We, as…
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Gate of the Sun: Mysterious ancient structure that defies modern history
(ORDO NEWS) — This ancient “portal” was created from a single andesite block weighing about 10 tons and is 3.0 m high and 4.0 m wide. Some researchers claim that it dates back to around 15,000 BC. Located near one of the most wonderful lakes on Earth – Lake Titicaca – the gate of the sun was built thousands of years ago by an ancient culture that inhabited modern Bolivia,…
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Astronomers have shown an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers using the SPHERE spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have provided a direct image of an exoplanet orbiting the star AF Hare (AF Leporis). AF Hare is a young star located 87 light-years from Earth and estimated to be only 24 million years old. In the course of analyzing the data collected by the Hipparcos and Gaia spacecraft, two independent teams of researchers…
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Solar tornado: A strange phenomenon recorded on the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists were amazed after a plasma prominence broke off from the surface of the Sun and formed a tornado-like vortex around its north pole. This amazing phenomenon was captured by NASA using the James Webb Space Telescope and tweeted by space weather forecaster Dr. Tamita Skov. “Let’s talk about the polar vortex!” she wrote last week. “Material from the northern prominence has just broken away from the…
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A powerful X-class flare occurred on the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — There was a powerful flare on the Sun. NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which constantly monitors the Sun, took a picture of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and eruptions on the Sun can affect radio communications, power grids, navigation signals and pose a danger to spacecraft and astronauts. According to NASA, it was an X1.1 class flare. Class X indicates the high intensity…
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A giant prominence was photographed near the north pole of the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have discovered a giant prominence on the Sun. “Let’s talk about the polar vortex,” the report says. “Material from the northern prominence has just broken away from the main body and is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our star.” Prominences are ejections of relatively cold gas that are held above the stellar surface by a magnetic field. As astronomer…
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New Earth-sized exoplanet discovered near the Sun
(ORDO NEWS) — Using NASA‘s Kepler spacecraft and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet located about 70 light-years from the sun. Planet K2-415b is at least three times as massive as Earth. Kepler has discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets to date. After the failure of two reaction wheels in 2013, the mission was renamed K2 to perform high-precision photometry of individual fields in…
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Parker Solar Probe flew through the base of the Sun’s coronal ejection
(ORDO NEWS) — The American solar probe Parker Solar Probe for the first time in history flew through the base of a coronal ejection and received the first information about the properties of its matter during one of the approaches of this apparatus to the Sun. “For the first time, we measured the properties of particles and fields in the vicinity of the base of a CME that the Parker…