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The Dark Side of the Sun premieres February 12th on Science Channel.
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Sometime’s the Sun’s magnetic field becomes unstable and creates sun spots.
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Happy Pi Day!
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Like Earth, space experiences dynamic, powerful weather.
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The sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface, and scientists may have figured out why. A NASA spacecraft found evidence of “heat bombs” collectively heating up the atmosphere.
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The Sun’s Coronal Mass Ejections not only reach Earth, but should also cat us a lot of money.
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The sun is an amazing celestial object. Here are some amazing facts about the sun you may not know about!
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In 2018 the Solar Probe Plus launches. It will orbit 4 million miles above the sun.
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Solar wind is a constant emission from the Sun that sweeps out into the Solar System. It’s made of particles and plasma.
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A look at the upcoming missions that will take space exploration to new heights!
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Medical progress came in many forms this year, from nanotechnology and bio printing organs leading the charge to the first successful human trials for CRISPR.
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From reusable rockets to robotics, engineers began shaping a future in 2016 that most of us cannot yet dream of.
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2016 saw technology changing the way we interact with our world with new innovations like autonomous vehicles and virtual reality.
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Thanks to the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, we can now see nearly 300 galaxies normally hidden by stars and dust, 250 million light years away.
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2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. And to boldly go where no man has gone before, physicist Philip Lubin has outlined a way to propel spacecraft using photon propulsion instead of NASA’s current chemical propulsion.
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Researchers found the first gene associated with gray hair. After studying the genomes of more than 6,600 people from Latin America, the research team were able to identify the genes linked to different hair qualities, including graying.
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