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A solar storm

Health

Solar storms may cause up to 5500 heart-related deaths in a given year

In an approximate 11-year cycle, the sun blasts out charged particles and magnetised plasma that can distort Earth’s magnetic field, which may disrupt our body clock and ultimately affect the heart

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Diffractive solar sails, depicted in this conceptual illustration, could enable missions to hard-to-reach places, like orbits over the Sun?s poles. Credits: MacKenzi Martin

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NASA awards $2 million to advance rainbow-coloured solar sail project

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An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the equator of the Sun. The rotation in the north is always anti-symmetric to the rotation in the southern hemisphere. These mysterious waves move in the opposite direction to the sun's rotation, which is to the right, three times faster then what is allowed by hydrodynamics alone.

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Strange waves in the sun are travelling far faster than they should be

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Parker Solar Probe near the sun

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

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On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3. Picuted here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA???s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA???s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency???s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram

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Monster cloud of plasma spotted spewing out of a distant star

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Planet Earth and Sun. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

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Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind

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Partial solar eclipse will be visible in the UK and Ireland on 10 June

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Partial solar eclipse will be visible in the UK and Ireland on 10 June

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Parker Solar Probe

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe has gone faster than any spacecraft ever

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Sun's bumpy magnetic fields might explain why its atmosphere is so hot

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water in desert

Technology

Water could be extracted from desert air using heat from sunlight

A device that uses heat from sunlight to extract water from the air could help provide a sustainable source of water in remote, arid regions

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The health benefits of sunlight: Can vitamin D help beat covid-19?

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The health benefits of sunlight: Can vitamin D help beat coronavirus?

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Maps of the sun’s corona could help us predict dangerous solar storms

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We can now predict dangerous solar flares a day before they happen

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