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Science News Explores publishes news from all fields of science for students and other curious individuals from middle school and up, with resources for parents and educators. Science News Explores publishes news from all fields of science for students from middle school and up, with resources for parents and educators
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Plasma whirlpools on the sun could trigger solar flares
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (888+ words) The world’s biggest sun-observing telescope spotted these swirls for the first time This is the most detailed image of the sun’s surface ever captured. The structures seen here are swirls of magnetized plasma. Such whirlpools may power up solar flares....
Scientists Say: Virga
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (460+ words) This ghostly rain falls but never lands Sunlight illuminates this falling rain in Nevada. In such desert climates, water sometimes evaporates before it hits the ground. This phenomenon is called virga. By Katie Grace Carpenter Virga refers to rain or…...
Moon? Planet? This cosmic oddity blurs the line
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1495+ words) The 'moonish thingy' also restarts an old fight among astronomers over what qualifies as a planet A newly spotted object about the mass of Jupiter (illustrated in the middle) orbits a brown dwarf (foreground). That brown dwarf — or “failed star…...
Art helped this astrophysicist make sense of math
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1427+ words) Theoretical physicist Ronald Gamble uses math to study how black holes warp the shape of spacetime. Sometimes, he pictures himself as Marvel’s Iron Man. “I feel like Tony Stark every other day.” When Ronald Gamble first learned about black holes…...