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A 20-centimeter telescope at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo was Hisako Koyama’s go-to instrument for watching sunspots. Image by Asahigraph, 1951

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This Japanese ‘hidden figure’ enlightened the world with her sunspot sketches

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Artist’s impression of NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft on approach to the sun. Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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NASA wants to send a probe directly into our sun's atmosphere.

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Massive solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights for St. Patrick’s Day

If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, look up at the sky tonight for a spectacular light show. Two coronal mass ejections from the Sun on March 15 hit the Earth Tuesday, generating a severe geomagnetic storm. The storm has caused…

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Science Jul 25

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Scientists Discover What Makes the Northern Lights Dance

Scientists and stargazers alike have long been fascinated by the auroras, also known as the northern and southern lights -- the bands of light that stretch and sometimes dance across the night sky near the earth's poles.

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