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NASA's Solar Flare Lights Up the Sky!
The sun unleashed a powerful solar flare on September 6, 2022, the most significant in years. NASA classified it as an X1.1 flare, the strongest type observed. This event occurred during the sun's 25th solar cycle, which began in December 2019 and is set to continue until 2031. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory detected the solar flare, capturing breathtaking footage of the intense burst of light. The European Space Agency's Proba-2 satellite also observed the event. Solar flares result from...
Facts On The Five Known Dwarf Planets [Infographic]
A dwarf planet is an object that orbits the sun, has enough mass to become mostly round, is not in orbit around another object, and has not cleared the area around its orbit of other objects. Currently there are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. There may be hundreds...