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Two years ago, our star’s next door neighbor – Proxima Centauri – got a little emotional. It happens from time to time, only this time, the small red star really let go. A storm of fury that breaks its previous records, outdoing anything our own Sun could manage by magnitudes.   Sure, we were eavesdropping, …

Image copyright Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA) Image caption The arrow points to a “camp fire”. The circle at bottom-left gives an indication of size New pictures of the Sun taken just 77 million km (48 million miles) from its surface are the closest ever acquired by cameras. They come from the European Space …

Image copyright David Vaughan Finding out how fast Antarctic ice is melting is critical to understanding the scale of the climate crisis. The BBC’s chief environmental correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, is therefore joining scientists as they check the health of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. But first he has to undergo some checks himself. We were …

In his letter, Wexner claimed to be “embarrassed” to have been duped. The admission raised more questions than it answered: Did Wexner go to the authorities with these claims? And if not, why not? What was the nature of the two men’s relationship? And why had he given Epstein so much control over his finances …