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  Tips to protect yourself against the summer sun

  Beauty | May 13, 2021 15:17 IST

  Follow the advice of a good dermatologist to protect your skin against UV and infrared damage while you stay indoors and continue to apply sunscreen at home. 

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  GREGOR telescope captures disturbingly-close pictures of sunspot. Take a look

  Science | September 07, 2020 19:38 IST

  GREGOR Telescope has captured highest-resolution pictures of the sun and they are undoubtedly eerie and amazing at the same time. The European telescope at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain, and operated by German scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics.

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  NASA selects potential mission to study dynamics of the Sun

  Science | August 30, 2020 18:12 IST

  NASA has picked five proposals for concept studies of missions to help improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun and the space environment with which it interacts around Earth.

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  NASA releases new photo showing shape of bubble surrounding our solar system

  Science | August 08, 2020 16:40 IST

  Scientists have developed a new puffy model for the shape of the Sun's heliosphere or the magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system.

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  Solar Orbiter probe snaps closest pictures of Sun

  Science | July 16, 2020 21:25 IST

  The first images snapped by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, an international collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, are now available for the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun.

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  NASA, ESA set to release first images from Solar Orbiter Mission

  Science | July 14, 2020 9:33 IST

  Following the February 9 launch, the Solar Orbiter had made its first close pass of the Sun in mid-June. The mission had turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time. This flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun. 

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  Star brighter than sun disappears. Find out how

  Science | July 14, 2020 8:48 IST

  A 'monster' star that was over 2 million times brighter than the sun disappeared in 2019. A study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has included shocking information about the star.

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  Super HD pictures of Sun captured using Hi-C camera: What it is, how it works and more

  Technology | June 25, 2020 21:09 IST

  Looking at Sun in super HD is super exciting. Hi-C or High-Resolution Coronal Imager is being used here to capture such a detailed shot of the sun. Can you take a similar image?

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  NASA's 10-year time lapse of sun: Watch a whole decade in video

  Science | June 24, 2020 23:02 IST

  ​NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's observatory has gathered as many as 450 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years.

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  'Mirror image' of earth, sun found 3000 light-years away

  Science | June 09, 2020 10:00 IST

  Scientists have discovered a massive exoplanet that orbits a star located some 3,000 light-years away from us and it may be potentially habitable. 

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  Largest ozone layer hole over Arctic closed? Here's what we know so far

  Science | April 27, 2020 10:08 IST

  The largest hole in the earth's ozone layer over the Arctic has closed. Scientists have confirmed that the largest hole in the ozone layer which was 1 million square kilometers wide over the Arctic has now healed.

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  New NASA mission to study causes of solar particle storms

  Science | March 31, 2020 23:08 IST

  NASA is planning to launch a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms -- known as solar particle storms -- into planetary space.

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  Never-seen-before image of Sun captured by world's largest telescope

  Science | January 30, 2020 10:50 IST

  The Sun looks like a boiling pot of popcorn, belies the notion of a bland yellow orb. Details in the newly released images show plasma, which covers the sun, that appears to boil.

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  Wolf moon eclipse on January 10: Where to watch, timing of the first lunar eclipse of 2020

  Science | January 07, 2020 7:57 IST

  Wolf moon eclipse: January 10 (Friday) is going to be a wolf moon eclipse night as we approach towards one of the four lunar eclipses in 2020. It is going to be a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse when the earth will come between Sun and Moon.

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  A Star 1400 times the Sun may explode and be visible during day, say scientists

  Science | December 27, 2019 21:43 IST

  Betelguese is a star in the Orion constellation and is one of the brightest objects in the sky. However, Betelgeuse has rapidly fallen down the list of brightest objects in the night sky.

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  'Ring of fire': People witness annular solar eclipse in Tamil Nadu

  India | December 26, 2019 12:27 IST

  Solar Eclipse 2019: People in Tamil Nadu across several districts including Chennai, Tiruchirapalli, Udhagamandalam, Madurai others witnessed Solar eclipse 2019 watching sun turning into a ring of fire.

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  PM Modi shares photos of him watching solar eclipse, says he was enthusiastic about it

  India | December 26, 2019 12:27 IST

  PM Modi posted photos of him on Twitter witnessing solar eclipse 2019 when sun turned into a 'ring of fire' on Thursday saying like many Indians, I was enthusiastic about Solar Eclipse 2019.

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  Milky Way is about 890 billion times the mass of our Sun: Study

  Science | December 14, 2019 17:57 IST

  ​While it is not possible to put the entire Milky Way on a scale, that has not deterred astronomers from trying to make measurements of our home galaxy. According to a new "robust" estimate of Milky Way's mass measurement, it is about 890 billion times the mass of our Sun.  

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe takes close view of Sun; discovers dust-free zone

  Science | December 05, 2019 10:08 IST

  NASA's Parker Solar Probe will sweep past Venus on December 26 for the second gravity-assist of the $1.5 billion mission and make its fourth close solar encounter in January.

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  Scientists discover monster black hole, 70 times bigger than Sun

  Science | November 28, 2019 13:17 IST

  Until just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star, the researchers said. This process creates powerful X-ray emissions, detectable from the Earth, that reveal the presence of the collapsed object, they said.