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By Donna Lu “Campfires” on the surface of the sunSolarOrbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL The closest images ever taken of the sun, by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, have revealed miniature solar flares everywhere near its surface. Dubbed “campfires”, these are up to a billion times smaller than…

By Layal Liverpool Cold war satellites can do more than just spyU.S. Geological Survey Images taken by cold war spy satellites have revealed a long-term decline in biodiversity due to the expansion of farming in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years. Catalina Munteanu at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany and her colleagues analysed satellite images…