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  2. Once-in-a-lifetime nova will appear in Earth's sky. Here's ...

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    A rare nova explosion will soon be visible in the Earth’s nighttime sky, according to officials at NASA. ... will be a fleeting event and may be difficult to spot,” Andreoli told Yahoo News.

  3. ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ explosion will bring a new star to the ...

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    In about 5 billion or 6 billion years, our sun will become a red giant, puffing up and expanding as it releases layers of material and likely evaporating the solar system’s inner planets ...

  4. Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun - AOL

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    A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on ...

  5. Solar storm - Wikipedia

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    Solar flare, a large explosion in the Sun's atmosphere caused by tangling, crossing or reorganizing of magnetic field lines; Coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive burst of plasma from the Sun, sometimes associated with solar flares; Geomagnetic storm, the interaction of the Sun's outburst with Earth's magnetic field

  6. NASA is about to 'touch' the sun. Here's what you need to know.

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    NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft will fly within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface. The spacecraft is collecting essential data that ...

  7. Why the sun is at maximum - AOL

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    The sun emits the largest solar flare of this 11-year cycle, as imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 3. NASA/SDO NASA says the sun is in the highly active "maximum phase" of its ...

  8. Solar flare - Wikipedia

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    In 1943, Grote Reber was the first to report radioastronomical observations of the Sun at 160 MHz. The fast development of radioastronomy revealed new peculiarities of the solar activity like storms and bursts related to the flares. Today, ground-based radiotelescopes observe the Sun from c. 15 MHz up to 400 GHz.

  9. 'Once-in-a-lifetime event': Explosion in space to look like ...

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    What researchers are calling a "Once-in-a-lifetime event," is a nova, or explosion, between two suns 3,000 lightyears away. 'Once-in-a-lifetime event': Explosion in space to look like new star ...