It Rains on the Sun, and Now We Know How (and Why)
It sounds odd, but it’s true: it rains on the sun. It rains two million-degree plasma. This solar rain falls in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, when hot plasma ...
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Scientists Are Having a Hard Time Observing the Sun Right Now
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal tells us that the Sun may be tossing explosive plasma spirals called flux ropes at us. If that’s the case, we wouldn’t ...
The Sun Is Way More Active Than Normal Right Now—and Nobody Knows Why
The sun undergoes cycles of activity that last approximately 11 years. Solar Cycle 25, which began in December 2019, was supposed to be calm and relatively mild. After all, the ...
The UK Wants to Fight Climate Change by Dimming The Sun
You probably remember Morpheus’s info dump from The Matrix. It’s when he explains that the Earth’s sky was scorched to block out the sun to deprive the machines of their ...
