Auroras

Mercury’s auroras are perfectly in character. While temperate Earth gets heavenly light shows over its poles, hellish Mercury gets invisible ribbons of X-ray radiation that cling…

In a study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists described how they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio…

There are so many sweet treats you can make in Disney Dreamlight Valley, and there's a good chance you'll want to make them all at some point--they're usually great for…

To achieve the final result, astronomers had to create composites made out of several images and then add filters to highlight what's what. The reddish filter is for auroras…

A couple of days ago, news of the sun being busy with Cannibal eruption, creating potential solar storms, made headlines. While space forecasters predicted a minor (G1) to moderate (G2)…

Earth’s northern and southern lights—the result of a rendezvous between magnetic fields, energized particles from the Sun, and our planet’s atmospheric admixture—are wondrous spectacles. But…

Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is hundreds of degrees warmer than expected. After a decades-long search, scientists may have pinned down a likely source of that anomalous heat. The…

The New York TimesJul 05, 2021 15:52:16 ISTWhen barrages of charged protons and electrons erupted from the sun head our way, Earth’s magnetic field deftly deflects them around the planet.…

By re-creating the conditions for an aurora in the lab, researchers have confirmed how these bright, shimmery curtains of light form. The northern lights arise when electrons from…