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At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

Prominences are cool plasma structures extending several thousand kilometers in the Sun’s hot corona. Some persist for weeks.

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European astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe ...

New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today. (CREDIT: Monthly ...

"It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing." The post ...

Chinese scientists and international collaborators have used one of the largest cosmological simulations ever created to "fast-forward" the universe from the Big Bang to the present day inside a ...

Scientists thought they knew what happened to stars in their dotage, but thanks to new supercomputer simulations, we now ...