The most powerful solar storm in nearly six years, catching forecasters by surprise, slammed into Earth on March 24, 2023, peaking as a severe G4 on the 5-grade scale used by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to assess the severity of space weather events. The recent storm’s...
Capstone will perform two more clean-up operations to enhance its orbit during the course of the following five days.
The new capture is the first of Hubble’s 18 observations of the asteroid since the impact event to reveal an unexpected and startling development: a double tail of debris is emerging from the asteroid system, according to a news release.
The unprecedented view of the radioactive remains of a once-giant star demonstrates that, contrary to the astronomers’ expectations based on previous observations of the stellar corpse, the remains of a supernova are more chaotic.
Chinese scientists have detected an X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) and confirmed that it originated from a magnetar in the Milky Way.