It’s been a year since the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, captured millions of imaginations as the moon briefly blotted out the sun and cast a shadow that crisscrossed the United States from Oregon to South Carolina.
US space agency postpones launch of fastest object ever made on journey to Earth’s nearest star
By examining microscopic ice-blue crystals of mineral hibonite trapped inside a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, an international team of scientists was able to figure out what the Sun was like before the Earth formed.
The Parker Solar Probe is our first mission to “touch” the Sun
The sun has been blank for 21 days–3 whole weeks without sunspots.
FEWER and fewer sunspots are appearing on the Sun as ball of fire prepares to go into a solar minimum which could lead to a mini Ice Age.
Too bad humans won’t be around to see it.
Sunspots are becoming scarce. Very scarce. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots.
Yesterday’s high temperature in Florianópolis, Brazil, topped 90 degrees F, typical of the region’s warm summer days.
It is often assumed that a structure’s surface can be appropriately represented as a two-dimensional area, completely flat and devoid of any depth. However, in reality, two-dimensional surfaces do not exist in nature, if zoomed in sufficiently even the most seemingly flat surface has 3-dimensional structure. This can pose a problem when physics that have been formulated with two-dimensions are re-examined using a more realistic 3D model.
