Sun news for December 12, 2024: Sun activity is high thanks to an isolated M6.7 flare. However, the number of flares in the past day dropped from 27 to 9.
The Lucy spacecraft will make a close approach to Earth today. Its 6-year mission will carry it through the main asteroid belt and into the orbit of Jupiter.
Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus the Bull, is at one tip of a V-shaped cluster. If placed where our sun is, its surface would pass the orbit of Mercury.
Last week, Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii captured videos of bright flashes on the moon. Could they be Geminid meteors striking the moon? See the videos here.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge say that it's likely there were never any oceans on Venus. The planet might have always been as hot as it is now.
Chido - now a severe tropical storm and still intensifying - is moving toward Madagascar, off southeast Africa. It should sweep past Friday, December 13.