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Sun unleashes monster solar flare

9 years ago
Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.
Sarah Lewin Space.com Associate Editor

Aliens could learn about us from math on Voyager's Golden Record

9 years ago
The Voyager 1 probe, which launched 40 years ago today (Sept. 5), is humankind's most distant physical emissary, at almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 and its sister-spacecraft, Voyager 2, which launched two weeks earlier in 1977, gave scientists their first close-up views of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And the spacecraft famously carried with them what could be aliens' first views of Earth, its inhabitants and their culture: copies of the Golden Record.
Sarah Lewin Space.com Associate Editor

Ancient deal-makers: Archaeological find sheds light on Biblical kingdom

9 years ago
Long before anyone licked the gum on an envelope, people used seals to ensure that their letters weren’t opened until they reached their recipients. If the seal was broken before it reached its destination, it indicated that someone had opened it.Now an archaeological dig in Israel’s City of David National Park, in the area of the walls of Jerusalem, has unearthed a collection of small clay seals that prove that the practice of using seals to ensure the privacy of a message goes back more than 2,700 years.
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