Day: February 27, 2025

On Feb. 27, 1942, a British physicist named James Stanley Hey accidentally found out that the sun emits radio waves. Hey was working for the Army Operational Research Group in the middle of World War II. His job was to find ways to stop the Germans from jamming British radars. Hey received reports that anti-aircraft …

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SpaceX has pushed the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket back a few days. Elon Musk‘s company had been targeting Friday (Feb. 28) for Flight 8 of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. But that’s no longer the plan. “Now targeting to launch Starship’s eighth flight test as soon as Monday, …

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Our aurora forecast live blog tells you everything you need to know about the likelihood of seeing the northern lights tonight and for the days ahead. We’ll also report on relevant solar activity and significant space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and coronal holes which could bring strong aurora-sparking solar winds our …

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