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Aaron Leong - Fri, Feb 20, 2026
When it's not busy dissecting distant galaxies or creating dark matter maps, the James Webb Space Telescope is also making a name for itself closer to home. To wit, it has produced the first-ever three-dimensional images of upper...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Oct 28, 2025
Seems like we've been on a northern lights roll lately, haven't we? There's one happening again tonight and the NOAA is even promising how the spectacular aurora display will be visible as far south as New York and Wisconsin. Forecasts say...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Oct 16, 2025
Skywatchers across North America should be on high alert as a rare train of four CMEs (coronal mass ejections) from the Sun is set to collide with Earth's magnetic field, promising a spectacular and widespread display of the Northern...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Sep 01, 2025
Skies across the Northern Hemisphere are in for a special Labor Day light show as an intense "cannibal" solar storm speeds toward Earth. Expected to hit the planet's magnetic field between the wee hours of September 1 and 2, the storm has...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Aug 19, 2025
The northern lights, a.k.a. aurora borealis, are expected to be visible across a wide swath of the northern United States tonight. Thanks to a recent surge in solar activity, skywatchers much further south than usual, from the Pacific...
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