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The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the cycle's beginning, the sun has fewer sunspots. Their number increases as ...
A documentary about the first all-Taiwanese expedition to the South Pole is to be shown at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival next month, organizers said on Wednesday. The documentary, Nature of ...
Best Documentary Programme: Endurance. ... that of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 expedition to the South Pole and that of the 2022 mission to find his ship, ...
Fuel use at the South Pole in the summertime exceeds 20,000 gallons per week and requires an expensive ... musical concerts and a visit from Sir David Attenborough and his documentary film ...
The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...
Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...
We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...
Today, the U.S. operates three major research stations on the continent—McMurdo Station, Palmer Station and the South Pole Station—making it one of the most active nations in Antarctic research.