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Something weird is going on with the Sun. So far, almost every day in 2022 it has erupted in flares and coronal mass ejections, some of which were the most powerful eruptions our star is capable of. By itself, an erupting Sun is not weird. It...
Something weird is going on with the Sun.
After being closed for 3½ years, the 65,000-square-foot Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay reopened its doors to the public last Friday.
IT’S BEEN a bit crowded around Mars this last month. The US mission Perseverance managed to touch down first. It was looking for a bit of dried-up pond slime which is where they believe some remains of life on Mars might be found. Most US citizens, especially Donald Trump’s special species of right-wing racist ignoramus, saw the invasion of Mars as a logical follow-up to the US invasions of Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, the moon, etc. Life on Mars? If they did find Little Green Men they could soon blast them into extinction. Next in the queue to land on our nearest planet was the Emirat...
On This Day in Space! Dec. 20, 1904: Mount Wilson Observatory founded Space 20/12/2020 © Provided by Space mount wilson observatory bobcat fire On Dec. 20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded. This astronomical observatory was the brainchild of the solar astronomer George Ellery Hale. He was a professor at the University of Chicago who was famous for discovering magnetic fields in sunspots. In 1889, two Harvard astronomers started testing out the observing conditions at Mount Wilson, but rain and snow damaged many of their instruments — not to mention the clouds that block...