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Cosmic News: a meteorite hit New Jersey, and we touch two new worlds
Cosmic News — curated by the Kingsway workshop. We work with meteorites every day; here's what's happening above our heads this month. A meteorite crashed into a New Jersey home — and it's rewrit...
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New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability
What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instability can create waves and swirls when two streams flow past each other -- in this case variable streams of solar magnetic plasma. Long hypothesized to occur on the Sun's surface, KHI streaks and swirls were confirmed in just-re