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A few hundred million years after its formation, the Moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several times and was completely churned through. At that time, the Moon orbited significantly closer to ...

The balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III captured images of the Sun with highest resolution in July of this year during its six-and-a-half-day stratospheric flight. The team has published the first, carefully processed images today. They show ...

Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in ...