In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star far outside our solar system. View on euronews

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the Sun's corona. Structures known as coronal streamers and the Milky Way can be seen in the footage it captured. Credit: Space.com | NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Na

A massive filament eruption carved a 250,000-mile-long "canyon of fire" into the sun — and sent a CME sailing into space.

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today."

Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire over our home star.

In a rare cosmic moment, the sun positioned itself directly above the Kaaba in Mecca on Tuesday. For Muslims around the world, this created a natural and precise way to find the Qibla, the direction faced during prayer.

One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times it. These large black holes may have been formed by even earlier mergers, Professor Mark Hannam, from Cardiff University and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, said in a news release.

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

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