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Solar Eclipse Observing on Wednesday 12th August 2026
06/08/2026

Solar Eclipse Observing on Wednesday 12th August 2026

Solar eclipse observing, 12th August 2026 August 6, 2026 aberobsLeave a comment There is a solar eclipse on the evening of the 12th August this year that is easily visible from South Wales. Although in some parts of Europe, for example Northern Spain, the eclipse is total from the UK is a creditable...

BBC News - See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet
06/08/2026

BBC News - See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet

New images and footage of the Sun show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before.

In September 1969, a 100-kilogram space rock exploded in the sky above Murchison, Australia — and 50 years later, scient...
21/06/2026

In September 1969, a 100-kilogram space rock exploded in the sky above Murchison, Australia — and 50 years later, scientists analyzing dust grains buried inside the meteorite found particles between 5 and 7 billion years old, formed in the dying outer layers of stars that lived and died long before our Sun was born, in what remains the oldest solid material ever identified on the surface of the Earth

The Murchison meteorite is, by every available measure, one of the more scientifically valuable single rocks ever to fall on the planet. The fireball that delivered it streaked across the sky above the Goulburn Valley in southeastern Australia on a Sunday morning in September 1969, broke apart at hi...

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