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People across the U.S. — including more than 500 Taft Middle School students in Cedar Rapids and thousands on the Pentacrest in Iowa City — watched as the moon passed between the Earth and the sun for a solar eclipse Monday afternoon.

University of Iowa professor Gregory Howes has received a grant from NASA to study how particles in space are accelerated to high energy.

Carilion Clinic paid CEO Nancy Agee more than $2 million a year in 2019 and 2020, compensation records show.

Predictions indicate that it should be possible to directly identify how turbulence heats a given black hole’s plasma from the spectrum of that plasma’s radiation.

The typically green and pink light shows occur when electrically charged particles from the Sun excite gases in the Earths atmosphere, causing them to glow.

An article suggests the natural light show starts when disturbances on the sun pull on Earth's magnetic field, creating cosmic waves that launch electrons into the atmosphere to form the aurora.

What Causes The Northern Lights? Scientists Finally Know For Sure Austin Montelius / College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa Nothing can ruin our joy in the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, those ribbons of blue, green and violet light that cascade from the sky. Not even knowing for sure what causes them. Physicists have long speculated about what gives rise to this very specific light phenomenon that occurs in the Earths polar regions. Now theyre certain. An ...

An article suggests the natural light show starts when disturbances on the sun pull on Earths magnetic field, creating cosmic waves that launch electrons into the atmosphere to form the aurora.

They provide the boost needed for aurora displays A surfer and the aurora borealis in Utakleiv, Norway (Image credit: OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images) The aurora borealis found in the Northern Hemisphere and aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere have captivated humankind since the dawn of civilization. These natural light shows provide the closest opportunity we can get to experiencing space weather — conditions that are caused by activity on the suns surface and as such, they follow...

Electrons can surf electromagnetic waves toward Earth, reaching speeds of up to 45 million miles per hour.