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Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the Americas and Pacific

November 6, 2025
The sun has fired off not one but two colossal X-class solar flares in less than 12 hours, causing radio blackouts across the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption and marking a dramatic uptick in solar activity. Each of the X-flares was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection. (Image credit: NOAA SWPC / LASCO) The first eruption, an X1.8-class flare, exploded from sunspot AR4274…
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How AI fixed the James Webb Space Telescope's blurry vision

November 6, 2025
Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. But a team of Australian researchers created an AI algorithm that fixes the problem — a major relief for the scientific community, which hopes to use the instrument to search for exoplanets around stars in our Milky Way…
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See 2 of Jupiter's moons cast vast shadows over the planet early on Nov. 5

November 5, 2025
In a Nutshell On Nov. 5 after midnight, use a telescope to see Jupiter with shadows of its moons Io and Europa passing in front. A 6-inch or larger telescope is needed for viewing details on Jupiter's surface. Io's shadow will be on the right, while Europa's will appear on the left side of Jupiter. Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see…
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The International Space Station will fall to Earth in 2030. Can a private space station really fill its gap?

November 4, 2025
When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity’s ambitions for it. By the time that the International Space Station (ISS) is safely and deliberately de-orbited over the Pacific Ocean, the station will have been permanently crewed for 30 years —…
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Explore the Milky Way like never before in this stunning new color map (image)

November 3, 2025
Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling cosmic panorama that reveals supernova remnants, stellar nurseries, pulsars and the intricate glow of gas and dust weaving through our galaxy’s heart. Built from data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Western Australia, the image combines…
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