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Sun: Active Regions 2993 and 2994

Two new active regions emerged from the Sun’s northeastern limb over the weekend and they are active: The two regions are AR 2993 and 2994 and they have been generating solar flares since they...

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C/2021 A1 Leonard – Jan 5, 2022

This is the beautiful comet C/2021 A1 Leonard after its closest approach to the Sun: The coma is greenish and the tail is reddish. The tail became very long as it approached the Sun...

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NGC 7008 – Fetus Nebula in SHO

This is NGC 7008, the Fetus Nebula, captured using narrowband and presented here in the Hubble Palette (SHO): This image is a result of 120 minutes of total exposure time across all narrowband filters...

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Sun: Dec 22, 2021, Featuring 9 Sunspots

The sun is the most active than it has been in years – there are nine active regions on the sun today: Here’s the annotated version: Here’s a brief description of each active region:...

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