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Orbital house of cards: One solar storm and 2.8 days could end in disaster for Earth and its satellites
A new paper has taken a look at the orbits of megaconstellations around Earth, and found that we may be tiptoeing dangerously close to the catastrophic "Kessler syndrome" first hypothesized in 1978.
ATLANTA — For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such ...
Solar storms can trigger auroras on Earth. This star’s explosion could destroy a planet’s atmosphere
(CNN) — For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as ...
Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it could have stripped away the atmosphere of any planets ...
Activity on the sun is not constant; it varies along a cycle of about 11 years. The peak of this solar cycle — called solar maximum — is when sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...
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