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Science
The sun releases its strongest flare this cycle
Image of the X9 flare on October 3, 2024, observed in extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA/SDO Yesterday, the sun released a huge solar flare heading toward Earth. Don’t worry, it’s not quite as big as the 1859 Carrington event, but it’s still big enough to provide some spectacular aurora borealis viewing. Large solar flares occur regularly. Quite literally, the sun…
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Physics
Collision of heavy ions could generate the world’s strongest electric field
Experiments are underway to recreate conditions at the core of neutron stars, such as those discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/ESO/F.Vogt et al). Optics (ESO/VLT/MUSE & NASA/STScI) The world’s strongest electromagnetic fields are also being used in laboratory experiments around the world gearing up to recreate a…
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