Radiation

Huge solar storm in May 2024 spawned 2 new radiation belts around Earth

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A dark Earth in space is central to many lines connected at the poles that loop out in large arcs from top to bottom. The inner most loops a shades of blue, green, red and yellow.

The great solar storm of May 2024, which sparked beautiful auroral displays over much of the world, also created two new radiation belts that were observed with a satellite that came back from the dead. “This is really stunning,” Xinlin Li, a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of … Read more

M87 Releases a Rare and Powerful Outburts of Gamma-ray Radiation

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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration made history when it released the first-ever image of a black hole. The image captured the glow of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the M87 galaxy, located 54 million light-years away. Because of its appearance, the disk that encircles … Read more