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From left to right: Nitzan Eliyahu, Shon Brener, and Omer Maoz tan on the beach in Shavei Zion, Western Galilee, on July 16, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
August 8, 2026, 8:40 am
Courting cancer? Israelis increasingly use viral UV index hack to get ‘instant tan’
Parents of teens appeal to doctors for help as trend turns warning system into method for faster bronzing. In good news, national skin cancer mortality rates are low – for now
By Diana Bletter
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA)
December 27, 2024, 12:09 pm
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by sun, sustaining 1,700ºF heat
Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, makes history, in first of three record-breaking fly-bys in effort to tackle scientific mysteries about earth’s closest star
By AFP
The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
May 11, 2024, 7:57 am
Intense solar storm causes spectacular northern lights displays across the globe
Auroras seen in skies of US, north Europe and Australasia as result of most powerful solar storm in over 20 years; changes to Earth’s magnetic field could cause power disruptions
By Issam Ahmed
Israelis crowd the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot day during the Passover holiday, April 9, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90/File)
June 11, 2023, 10:20 pm
In sizzling Israel, Skin Cancer Awareness Week shines light on safety in the sun
With melanoma cases on the rise, Israelis are urged to schedule free dermatology checks, take precautions, and protect children and youth under 18
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An image of the sun with coronal holes forming a smiley face. (NASA)
October 29, 2022, 12:38 pm
NASA releases image of ‘smiling’ Sun
Dark patches called coronal holes could signify solar storm heading toward Earth; image prompts comparisons to a Halloween pumpkin
By ToI Staff
A sunspot captured by astrophotographer David 'Deddy' Dayag with his own adjusted home telescope. (Courtesy: David 'Deddy' Dayag)
October 10, 2022, 2:04 am
With a 93-million-mile zoom, a Netanya stargazer snaps the sun up close and personal
David Dayag, a self-taught astronomer, is getting attention for his time-lapse photos, showing the fire and fury at the center of the solar system as if it were next door
By Jessica Steinberg
An artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)
December 15, 2021, 2:53 pm
NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ sun for 1st time, dives into its atmosphere
Parker Solar Probe comes within 8 million miles of Earth’s nearest star as it flies along uneven boundary between atmosphere and outgoing solar wind
By Marcia Dunn
This image, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), shows the Sun on May 30, 2020. (Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL/ via AP)
July 16, 2020, 10:29 pm
Scientists marvel as closest pics ever taken of sun show it is covered in flares
So-called ‘campfires’ are ‘literally everywhere we look,’ say awed experts, suggesting they could be mini-explosions but admitting they don’t know exactly what to make of them
By Agencies
Boaz Nehemia of Yerushamayim, Jerusalem's local weather forecaster, who forecasts the weather with his home weather station on the roof of his building (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 9, 2019, 8:18 pm
In Jerusalem, a legendary weatherman brings a warm touch to frigid forecasts
Boaz Nehemia is hailed for his local weather website, ‘Yerushamayim,’ which offers his own passion for exacting predictions rain or shine
By Jessica Steinberg
This image made available by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 depicts NASA's Solar Probe Plus spacecraft approaching the sun. (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory via AP)
May 31, 2017, 9:09 pm
NASA spacecraft will aim straight for the sun next year
Scorching flight will send probe into sun’s atmosphere, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation, to reveal how stars are made
By Agencies
One of the Holon Design Museum winners in its urban shade exhibit, titled Cloud Seeding (Photo credit: Luke Tress)
July 30, 2015, 9:19 pm
A search for shady solutions under the brutal Israeli sun
A group of industrial designers rethink Israel’s options for shade and coverage in a new Holon Design Museum exhibit
By Luke Tress
A high-definition image of the sun, released by NASA, June 2015 (YouTube screenshot)
June 25, 2015, 7:14 pm
WATCH: NASA shows awesome HD pictures of the Sun
Remarkable images showing solar events relayed 150 kilometers to Earth
By ToI Staff
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