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Why some objects in space look like snowmen

drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in

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Solar flares are hotter than previously thought

Solar flares can be many times the size of Earth and can damage things like satellites. A new study suggests that eruptions from the sun can

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Quantum to Cosmos

A journey through the universe brought to you by Perimeter Institute. Travel from the subatomic scale to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.

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The Sun’s Magnetic Poles Are Vanishing

The sun’s magnetic poles are about to reverse as part of a regular 11-year sunspot activity cycle

Cool solar physics! Short form:

Yes, the Sun's magnetic field is moving around.

No, this is not the prelude to a global disaster - it is very cool for science, and at most kind of annoying for certain aspects of telecommunications engineering (but might not actually be, depending on how things work out).

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"Bremsstrahlung is the radiation produced when a charged particle decelerates. Cherenkov radiation is the optical equivalent of a sonic boom, seen when a particle breaks the light barrier in a medium."

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Most people would feel under pressure when faced with a knife, and that's why they work so well.

For some reason, on the Ides of March, this seems relevant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade#Physics

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Christmas with Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Candle

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14474

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Robert Hooke - Wikipedia

On this date in 1661, Robert Hooke was appointed Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society in London.

360 years of stuff blowing up.