Here we go again for another season of rumors. This time, multiple reports suggest that all iPhone 17 models will have ProMotion as Apple calls the technology for displays with a higher refresh rate. While this seems highly likely, you probably shouldnt get too excited about it and heres why.Well-known display analyst Ross Young said back in September that every iPhone 17 model would have ProMotion, a technology that is currently exclusive to Pro models. Earlier today, a leaker known as Digital Chat Station (who has been right about Apple rumors in the past) corroborated reports that the entire iPhone 17 series will have LTPO displays with variable refresh rate.Since the iPhone 13 Pro, every Pro model comes with an LTPO display that adjusts the refresh rate automatically and can go up to 120Hz to show super-smooth animations. Meanwhile, non-Pro models are locked at 60Hz all the time.With the recent rumors, people have started to believe that the non-Pro iPhone 17 models will also have 120Hz displays with ProMotion. Personally, I dont think this is entirely true. As the name suggests, ProMotion is something that Apple considers a Pro feature. The only devices with ProMotion so far are the iPad Pro, iPhone Pro, and MacBook Pro.Sure, Apple sometimes ends up bringing Pro device features to the less expensive variants, but thats not always the case especially when the feature has Pro in its name.If I had to guess, Id say that Apple will indeed put higher refresh rate displays in the iPhone 17 and 17 Air, but they wont be 120Hz. Instead, it seems more likely that Apple will use 90Hz panels, which would be smoother than the 60Hz panels but still not on the same level as the ProMotion displays. I can even see them coming up with a new marketing name like Liquid Motion.Last month, an anonymous source told the Upgrade podcast that Apple has been exploring 90Hz displays for products such as the iPad Air, Studio Display, and even the iMac. To me, it seems plausible to think that the same technology will come to non-Pro iPhones.What about you? Do you think non-Pro iPhones will get 120Hz or 90Hz displays? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

We recently reported on Flexbar, a project developed by ENIAC Technology that brings back the Touch Bar the controversial (and now discontinued) small touch screen implemented by Apple on the MacBook Pro keyboard. Although Apple certainly had its reasons for discontinuing the Touch Bar, some users do miss it. I got my hands on a Flexbar unit to see what its like to use something like the Touch Bar again.Revisiting the Touch BarIf you dont remember the Touch Bar, it was introduced in 2016 when Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro. The Touch Bar replaced the traditional function key row with a touch strip that showed specific buttons for each app. The idea sounded great, but in reality, many people didnt like the experience of interacting with virtual buttons on the keyboard.I owned a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and I have mixed feelings about it. Apple was really bold to try something different although I dont think users really wanted or needed it. Touch Bar felt modern, and doing things like choosing emojis or swiping through a project timeline in Final Cut Pro was really cool.But most of the time, Touch Bar was quite annoying. It had a lot of bugs, often became unresponsive, and very few apps supported it. Apple ended up discontinuing the Touch Bar in 2021 arguing that Pro users love the tactile feel of mechanical keys. I cant argue with that, but I also think there was room for improvement.What its like to use FlexbarYears later, a group of engineers created Flexbar. It looks extremely similar to the Touch Bar, but in the words of its creators, it addressed users frustrations and unlocked a new level of productivity.Flexbar is built in metal for a more premium look, which matches the design of the Magic Keyboard and other Apple products. The device features an AMOLED touchscreen panel to display content. The resolution is sharp enough for you to see all the icons and text.While the Touch Bar had a pre-set of controls, Flexbar can be fully customized through a companion app. Users can add shortcuts to open apps, folders, websites, run scripts, adjust the volume, play a combination of keys or even a sequence of commands. You can also import and export layouts, which is great for exploring different ideas from other users.Ive only been using Flexbar for a few days, so I havent had time to dig into all the settings yet. Ive added shortcuts for the apps I use most, a volume slider, a button for Type to Siri, and another button to lock the screen. Flexbar can be configured with a fixed set of buttons or you can scroll to show even more buttons. You can also add more controls to folders so that they only become visible when you need them.Think of it like a Stream Deck, but with a touch version. Here, for example, Ive also created shortcuts to run scripts I use every day and to open the folder containing the assets I use to edit images and videos. And of course, I created shortcuts with my favorite emojis thats one thing I really missed about the Touch Bar.More advanced features and third-party plug-insUsers can go further with Flexbar and create more advanced controls. For instance, it lets you save the arrangement of apps on the screen, so that you can open them all in their respective positions with a single tap. Theres also a control for scrolling the screen.What about third-party apps? The engineers have created an SDK for Flexbar so that apps can provide specific interactions. Unfortunately, the plug-in store wont be available until the second half of 2025, so early adopters will be limited to the built-in controls. This can be a bit of a pain since you wont have things like a tab switcher in Safari for now.Integration with third-party apps teased in a videoBy the way, Flexbar has haptic feedback for when you interact with the controls. The device comes with a magnetic stand to improve ergonomics when you use it on a desk, and it is connected to your Mac via a USB-C cable. Ive noticed only a few issues, such as the Flexbar not turning off when my Mac goes into sleep mode, but this could just be a bug since Im using a prototype with beta software.Is Flexbar worth it?Well, the Flexbar idea is certainly interesting, especially for those who miss the Touch Bar. Since it doesnt interfere with your physical keyboard, theres no trade-off for using it. I really appreciate the Apple-like design, the magnetic stand, the customization options, and the haptic feedback. Also, its nice to use it in a desktop environment (remember that the Touch Bar used to be a MacBook thing)A feature request for the engineers: it would be interesting to see an option to replicate the native macOS Touch Bar (which is still there even if you dont have a Mac with a Touch Bar) on the Flexbar. Im sure doing this wouldnt be easy, but Ive seen a few people in the community interested in exploring this idea. Why not, right?The Flexbar was announced with a Kickstarter campaign and is expected to be launched in February 2025. The accessory will cost $179 at launch, but you can support the project and pre-order yours for $149. It works with Mac and Windows PCs.Is it a must-have product? Probably not. But for those who like accessories like the Stream Deck or Logitechs MX Creative Console, the Flexbar provides kind of the same functionality but in a much more elegant and modern design. The SDK for third-party plug-ins also makes me super excited about the future of the product.Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Of course it does.Fund and GamesThe former entirely-nonprofit-company known as OpenAI says it needs a boatload of more cash as it plans to transform its corporate structure to prioritize making money.In an announcement Friday, the ChatGPT maker argued that by creating a for-profit corporation to control its commercial enterprises, it can make the dough it needs to keep up with other leading AI developers."The hundreds of billions of dollars that major companies are now investing into AI development show what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the mission," OpenAI's board of directors wrote in a blog post."We once again need to raise more capital than we'd imagined,"they continued. "Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness."Altruism TruantThe announcement confirms reports in September from the Financial Times and others that OpenAI was finally moving to drop its original nonprofit status that it was founded with. At the time, OpenAI denied the reports and upheld the nonprofit arm as "core" to its mission.Now, with its newly proposed corporate structure, the Microsoft-backed startup won't be ditching its nonprofit aims entirely, but it's fair to say that altruism will no longer be the sole priority.The restructuring calls for its existing "capped-profit" arm to be transformed into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation, a type of corporate entity whose goals are ostensibly to serve the benefit of society while generating profits.The newly-christened corporation, which will have "ordinary shares of stock," will control all of OpenAI's operations and business, while the non-profit side will be in charge of hiring a leadership team and staff to pursue its charitable initiatives. In effect, the for-profit arm will be gaining far more power than it once had, if not all practical means of control.Shareholder ValueOpenAI frames this as a "stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit's success," but it's clear which side the division of power favors."The key to the announcement is that the for-profit side of OpenAI 'will run and control OpenAI's operations and business,'" Gil Luria, analyst at investment DA Davidson & Co, told Reuters. "This is the critical step the company needs to make in order to continue fund raising."The startup's gripe with its current structure is that it doesn't "allow the Board to directly consider the interests of those who would finance the mission and does not enable the nonprofit to easily do more than control the for-profit."The upshot is that OpenAI wants to court more backing by showing investors that they can now make more returns on the money they put in. As profits on expensive large language models remain elusive, OpenAI has depended on these investments, and especially the munificent backing of Microsoft, to fund its AI development. Its latest funding round secured over $6.6 billion in investment.The restructuring could run into legal hurdles, however. Earlier this year, Elon Musk sued OpenAI, which he helped cofound in 2015, for pursuing profits over benefiting humanity and has attempted to block its formal transition into a money-making corporation in court.Share This Article

Brainpower, at an extreme premium.Money to BurnOpenAI's recently unveiled o3 model is purportedly its most powerful AI yet, but with one big drawback: it costs ungodly sums of money to run, TechCrunch reports.Announced just over a week ago, o3 "reasons" through problems using a technique known as test-time compute as in, it takes more time to "think" and explore multiple possibilities before spitting out an answer. As such, OpenAI engineers hope that the AI model will produce better responses to complex prompts instead of jumping to a faulty conclusion.It appears to have worked, at least to some degree. In its most powerful "high-compute mode," o3 scored 87.5 percent on the ARC-AGI benchmark designed to test language models, according tothe test's creator Franois Chollet. That's nearly three times as high as the previous o1 model's best score, at just 32 percent.All that fastidious thinking, however, comes with exorbitant expenses. To achieve that high-water mark, o3 used well over $1,000 of computing power per task over 170 times more compute than a low-power version of o3, and leagues beyond its predecessor, which cost less than $4 per task.Wall to WallThese costs complicate the industry's claims that o3's performance soundly debunks fears that improving AI models through "scaling," or by furnishing them with more processing power and training data, has hit a wall.On the one hand, that o3 scored nearly three times higher than o1, which was released just three months ago, seems ample evidence that AI gains aren't slowing down.But the criticism with scaling is that it yields diminishing returns. While the gains here were in large part achieved through changing how the AI model "reasons" instead of scaling alone, the added costs are difficult to ignore.Even the low-compute version of o3, which scored a still breakthrough-worthy 76 percent on the benchmark, cost around $20 per task. That's a relative bargain, but still many times more expensive than its predecessors and with ChatGPT Plus costing just $25 per month, it's not clear how much smarter that user-facing product will be able to get without putting OpenAI deeply in the red.High SalaryIn a blog post explaining the benchmark results, Chollet asserts that though o3 is approaching human levels of performance, it "comes at a steep cost, and wouldn't quite be economical yet.""You could pay a human to solve ARC-AGI tasks for roughly $5 per task (we know, we did that)," he wrote, "while consuming mere cents in energy."He is adamant, however, that "cost-performance will likely improve quite dramatically over the next few months and years."And to that, we'll just have to wait and see. Right now, o3 isn't available to public yet, with a "mini" version of it slated to launch in January.Share This Article

LifeAnalytics Co,,, Ltd.Recruiting full stack and image processing researchers (life science/digital pathology field)[Job details] Analysis and processing of microscopic images in life science and digital pathology Development and optimization of web-based image analysis applications Research and development of new algorithms using data-driven research methods. Collaboration with researchers inside and outside the team.Qualification requirements 3+ years of experience in computer science, image processing, or related field. Experience in developing image analysis software Knowledge of programming languages (react, Python, C++, etc.) Experience with machine learning and deep learning is a plus. Communication and teamwork skills. Highly Knowledge of open stack[Work location] Fully remote work[What we offer] Career advancement opportunitiesApplication method Please send your resume and cover letter to [Recruiter's email address].LifeAnalytics,,,Co.LTD is looking for passionate researchers who will use cutting-edge technology to pioneer the future of rice science and digital pathology. Related Jobs See more Full-Stack Programming jobs

Whether it's to accompany a new device you got for the holidays or you're just overdue for an upgrade, the new year is an excellent time to invest in some top-tier headphones. And though many of the postholiday sales have begun to fade, we just spotted an excellent deal on the best sounding wireless earbuds of 2024. Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 buds are down to just $319 on Amazon right now, a dramatic 20% price cut that saves you $80. See at AmazonIn his initial review of the Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 buds, Executive Editor David Carnoy noted that they were "easily among the best-sounding earbuds out there." And in his roundup of the best wireless earbuds of 2024, Carnoy said, "The Pi8s are fantastic-sounding earbuds that also benefit from having a clearly improved design from the Pi7 S2 and Pi5 S2." Hey, did you know? CNET Deals texts are free, easy and save you money.Carnoy was also impressed by the improved ergonomics and active noise cancellation. Another feature he noted is the Bowers & Wilkins music app, available for iOS and Android, which lets you customize how you control your earbuds.Note that as of this writing, all four color variants -- midnight blue, jade green, dove white and anthracite black -- are available at this discount. But Amazon stock can fluctuate quickly, so if your heart is set on a particular color, grab it while you can. Read more: The Best Wireless Earbuds of 2024Why this deal matters These are regularly priced at close to $400, so scoring them for $319 takes a little sting out of the splurge. And because of the favorable reviews, if you're all about sound, these are the earbuds for you. We don't see a ton of deals on these particular buds, so now's the best time to buy. More shopping deals from CNET CNET is always covering a wide array of deals on tech products and much more. Start with the hottest sales and discounts on theCNET Deals page, and sign up for theCNET Deals Textto get daily deals sent straight to your phone. Add the freeCNET Shopping extensionto your browser for real-time price comparisons and cash-back offers. And peruse ourgift guide, which includes a full range of ideas for birthdays, anniversaries and more. See at CNET

If an Xbox gaming console was on your wish list this year but Santa had other plans, you're in luck. We rarely see significant discounts on any of Microsoft's Xbox gaming consoles, but right now Best Buy is enticing members with an offer on the Xbox Series X 1TB gaming console for $399 for Best Buy Total members. That's a $51 discount for Best Buy Total members. Plus, Best Buy has a trade-in program that has the potential to save you even more. See at Best Buy For $399, you'll get Microsoft's Xbox Series X 1TB All-Digital Console. This means all games are streamed or downloaded to the hard drive from the Microsoft Game Pass store, so you don't need to purchase any discs. With 1TB of storage, plus games that can be streamed in the cloud, you'll be able to play hours upon hours of games with this fast, powerful gaming console.Hey, did you know? CNET Deals texts are free, easy and save you money.Note that this offer only extends to the Robot White model. It does include the wireless controller, but you may want to add another one to play two-person games. This offer is only extended to those who have a Best Buy Total membership. Best Buy's trade-in program does offer some credits if you have a similar device to trade in, which includes handheld and gaming consoles from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Asus and Lenovo. How much you get will depend on what you are trading in Why this deal mattersThis fast, all-digital gaming console doesn't go on sale often so any discount is considered a good deal. Saving $51 knocks this down to just shy of $400, making it a little easier on the wallet. This isn't the best price we've ever seen, but deals for the Xbox usually only come around big shopping events like Black Friday or Best Buy's anti-Prime Day sales in the summer. A post-holiday discount of any kind on this gaming console is unusual. CNET is always covering a wide array of deals on tech products and much more. Start with the hottest sales and discounts on theCNET Deals page, and sign up for theCNET Deals Textto get daily deals sent straight to your phone. Add the freeCNET Shopping extensionto your browser for real-time price comparisons and cash-back offers. And peruse ourgift guide, which includes a full range of ideas for birthdays, anniversaries and more. See at CNET

Freezing food is the best way to keep good food and drinks from going bad including uncooked beef, excess herbs or wine that you couldn't finish.Unfortunately, not all your groceries are fit for the freezer. Some foods just don't handle those subzero temperatures and should be preserved another way, such as pickling, vacuum-sealing or simply consuming them before they start to turn. 20 Best Kitchen Gifts Under $30 See all photos To prevent a mass clean-out of expensive groceriesyou'd be wise to learn which foods don't belong there in the first place. Below, we've rounded up eight common foods you should never freeze.9 foods you should never freeze1. Milk and cream Keep your dairy out of the freezer or it will separate and curdle. DonNichols/Getty Images CNETMost dairy products can't be frozen and will become inedible if they are. Milk, cream, yogurt and sour cream tend to separate when frozen. Once they do, there's no returning them to their former state and the thawed result will be grainy, watery or even curdled. Nut milk, on the other hand, can be frozen more successfully.Ice cream is a known exception to the dairy rule because its high sugar content lowers the freezing point and keeps the product soft and palatable.2. Potatoes Potatoes shouldn't even be refrigerated, never mind frozen. Tyler Lizenby/CNETAmerica's favorite carb turns mushy and grainy when thawed, a physical state that is no bueno for use in anything from mashed potatoes to french fries. This is because the water separates from the tuber's starch, resulting in a gag-inducing texture that not even trash-foraging critters like raccoons can stomach. Freezing cooked or partially cooked potatoes (typically parboiled) is a-OK, as much of the water content is extracted during the cooking process. Bagged potato products from the freezer section of your local grocery store are treated with chemicals, preservatives or other specialized preparation methods to ensure flavor and texture are preserved when frozen.3. Cheese There are ways to store all types of cheese that will keep them fresh for longer but the freezer isn't one of them. Pamela Vachon/CNETPesky ice crystals form in frozen cheese, which completely changes its flavor and texture profile. This primarily applies to soft and moldy cheeses, though some hard varieties such as cheddar and jack can withstand the consistent blast of cold air if grated first and laid flat in a plastic storage bag.4. Fried food Unfortunetly, that leftover friend chicken can't be frozen for later. David Watsky/CNETThe best part of fried food is, of course, its crunchy breading. When placed in a freezer, this batter or crumb absorbs the appliance's moisture and makes the food become soggy. Additionally, fried food is chock-full of -- you guessed it -- oil, which doesn't freeze completely and can spoil before the meat or vegetable it has been cooked into. This can lead to foul-tasting meals but also an unfortunate and potentially dangerous bout of food poisoning.5. Eggs Eggs have a fairly long shelf life in the fridge so you shouldn't need to freeze them. Tanja Ivanova/Getty ImagesIf you enjoy your scrambled eggs rubbery, stick them in the freezer before preparation. This is due to a process called "gelation" where the yolk's protein molecules clump and make the liquid harder. Egg content also expands when frozen, which causes whole eggs to crack and leak. Avoiding eggs in the freezer means you must also avoid egg-based condiments as well, such as mayonnaise, which get lumpy and unspreadable.6. Salad-friendly fruits and vegetables Leftover salad ingredients such as avocado, lettuce and cucumbers should never be frozen. Carlo A/Getty ImagesIf it's a fruit or vegetable and can go into a typical salad, it won't hold up in the freezer. This includes any produce with high water content such as lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and celery. The beloved avocado will also not fare well in extremely low temperatures. As it thaws, it will immediately begin to brown. Nobody wants to dip their way through brown guacamole.7. Whole citrus Your best with an excess of citrus is to juice the fruit and freeze the juice for recipes and cocktails later on. David Watsky/CNETSome dense fruits such as berries and mango do well in the freezer, but citrus won't hold form so well. Whole citrus fruit will become mealy after thawing it out. If you have an abundance of lemons, limes or oranges, your best bet is to juice them and freeze the juice for later.8. Cooked pasta and rice Leftover cooked rice and pasta can be frozen safely but they'll lose much of their structure and toothsomeness upon reheating. David Watsky/CNETYou certainly canfreeze cooked pasta and rice, but it doesn't mean that you should. The water content causes the cells in noodles and grains to burst, resulting in pasty, gloopy leftovers that can't be salvaged with even the most delicious of sauces. Pasta is almost certainly going to emerge from the freezer in rough shape. Rice is a little more durable but consider vacuum-sealing it to keep moisture out before popping it in the freezer for preservation.9. Bottled or canned beverages We've all tried to quick-chill a beer or soda in the freezer before. Getty ImagesWho among us hasn't tried to cheat time by chilling a lukewarm beer can or bottle in the freezer, only to forget about it and return to find a frozen, bubbling disaster? If you're going to use the freezer to chill canned or bottled beverages, you'd be wise to set a timer for 10 minutes so they don't freeze solid and explode.

December 30, 20244 min readAuroras May Light Up New Years Sky after Solar OutburstsWill still more auroras ring out 2024, a year marked by the celestial displays?By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee BillingsThe northern lights seen over Lindisfarne Castle in England on October 10, 2024. Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty ImagesThe sun is bidding farewell to 2024 with a bangor rather several bangs. Our star produced three powerful flares on December 29. In addition, two bubbles of material it sent speeding out across space may paint Earths skies with auroras just as many Earthlings mark the turn of the year.Solar flares are categorized by their peak brightness in x-ray wavelengths, with X-class flares being the fiercest flashes. Our stars December 29 activity included three such flares, which occurred at 2:18 A.M., 11:14 P.M. and 11:31 P.M. EST, according to a NASA statement. The outbursts represent continuing tumult amid what scientists have identified as the maximum of the suns current activity cycle, which also produced stunning auroras as far south as Florida in May and October.The suns 11-year activity cycle is dictated by the magnetic fields that roil our stars surface. Our sun is a giant magnet, and so most of the things that happen on the sun are guided by the magnetism, says Maria Kazachenko, a heliophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Solar Observatory.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.Scientists measure the suns activity by counting the dark sunspots that mar its surface. Each sunspot is home to a smaller magnetic fieldalthough sunspots themselves are often the size of Earth. Sudden changes in the configuration of a sunspots magnetic field, called a magnetic reconnection, can release a huge amount of energy, causing a solar flare. But scientists are still trying to understand what events can trigger magnetic reconnections.The major problem with these flares is that we cannot really stick a thermometer or a magnetometer inside of the solar flare, Kazachenko says. So its very hard to understand whats going on.And magnetic reconnection in one sunspot can trigger the phenomenon in another sunspoteven across a large distancein what scientists call a sympathetic eruption. We frequently see flares occurring in groups, Kazachenko says. The two flares that occurred on Sunday evening represented such a group: they involved sunspots on opposite sides of the suns equator that erupted less than 20 minutes apart.But flares are merely blasts of radiation. Usually for an aurora to occur, the sun must release a bubble of plasma that scientists call a coronal mass ejection (CME), a phenomenon that follows some but not all flares. Whether a CME occurs depends on the details of magnetism at play. During some flares, magnetic fields trap material within the sun. During others, they allow vast blobs of plasma to escape the roiling star. And the more material there is, the better the odds of more spectacular auroras are, Kazachenko says.In the case of Sundays activity, all three major flares produced CMEs. Whether they will produce auroras isnt yet clear. But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Space Weather Prediction Center has released a geomagnetic storm watch for an event on December 31 and January 1 that, it says, might result in auroras becoming visible over the northern U.S. and into the nations lower Midwest.The uncertainty in the forecast arises from a few factors. Only two CMEs are on paths to potentially strike Earth, and these still may result in glancing blows, complicating predictions about their secondary effects. In addition, Kazachenko says, in order for an aurora to form, the magnetic field of the plasma blob must align opposite to Earths own magnetic field. Otherwise the plasma will simply stream by, scarcely perturbing our planet.The recent activity doesnt surprise scientists who have been carefully monitoring the suns progression through its activity cycle. In an October press conference, experts announced that the sun is officially in the maximum period of that cycle and will remain so for much of 2025.We can expect the maximum phase to be on the longer side, roughly three to four years long, said Lisa Upton, a solar scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, during that briefing. Currently were about two years into the maximum period, so we are anticipating another year or so of maximum phase before we really enter the declining phase.Throughout the remainder of solar maximum and beyond, scientists expect more activity and more impacts on Earth. We anticipate additional solar and geomagnetic storms leading to opportunities to spot aurora over the next several months, said NASA scientist Kelly Korreck during the same press conference.And although solar outbursts can harm satellites and astronauts in orbit and even the power grid on Earth, scientists are pleased to see 2024s activity and that of this solar cycle, which has aligned with the arrival of a massive new solar telescope and two separate spacecraft, all designed to tease apart the mysteries of how the sun works.This year has been amazing, Kazachenko says. Were now living through this solar maximum, and now we have this huge suite of instruments that observe the sun in a new way. Were now living in the golden age of solar multimessenger astronomy.

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