Sun news for December 25, 2023. Fun! EarthSky’s C. Alex Young produced this video. He also produces @thesuntoday. Sun news for December 25, 2023: Flare and filament fun Today’s top news: The sun kicked it up a notch over the past 24 hours, to give us a fun day of flares and filaments together. Starting … Read more
Yesterday, the NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected a coronal mass ejection (CME) that appeared to be coming towards the Earth. The early assessment revealed that it could hit the Earth in the late hours of November 11, although it wasn’t clear whether the strike would be a direct one or a glancing blow. … Read more
By Claudia Connell for the Daily Mail 21:11 11 Oct 2023, updated 21:17 11 Oct 2023 How many times of late have you bumped into an acquaintance looking suspiciously hollow-cheeked where once they carried a few extra pounds and thought to yourself, ‘Aha, Ozempic!’ The injectable drug, which acts as an appetite suppressant, has become … Read more
When the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event’s YouTube live-stream – a record for the site. The landing was a win for India’s low-cost space engineering, and science, as well as a quiet initiative to rebrand India’s 54-year-old space agency … Read more
In a piece of impressive news, billionaire Elon Musk’s Humanoid robot Optimus, which was announced by Tesla in August 2021, has been learning skills that will shock and awe you. Optimus was captured in a video doing multiple variations and postures of yoga, which is making the internet go wild. Elon Musk’s creations have often … Read more
Millions of people in the Americas will be in a position to witness an astronomical treat on Oct. 14 with a solar eclipse in which – weather permitting – the moon will be seen passing in front of the sun. The eclipse is due to be visible along a path covering parts of the United … Read more
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully landed the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the south pole of the Moon last month to become the first nation to do so. Now, the space agency is set to launch its first-ever mission to study the Sun. The latest solar mission, named Aditya L1, is set to launch today … Read more
US scientists responsible for a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough say they have repeated the feat — this time achieving a greater yield of energy. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory stunned the world in December when it announced it had carried out an experimental nuclear reaction that put out more energy than was put into it, … Read more