Photoshop CS5 tutorial showing how to make a futuristic, shiny, metallic orb that floats inside a larger, translucent orb.

This is a After Effects tutorial. Create Intro with Trapcode Particular and Optical Flares in After Effects 'Massive' ...

Using the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers have performed long-term photometric ...

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The eruption was accompanied by a CME, which is currently under analysis to assess whether any part of it is headed for Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is this year's most powerful solar flare and Earth is in the firing line. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Newly published research could help predict when there will be "powerful solar storms." According to Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, an international team of researchers found that the ...

Nov. 5 (UPI) --A moderate solar flare might affect radio communications on Earth Wednesday after a pair of powerful solar flares disrupted radio communications in sunlit areas of the globe this week, ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest flare ever detected from a supermassive black hole—a burst of light that, at its peak, was ten trillion times brighter than the sun. The flare was first observed ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is ...