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Kepler's 1607 Sunspot Sketches Shed Light on Early Solar Cycles
Jul 29, 2024 (SPX)
Their findings, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, provide crucial information on the length of solar cycles at the dawn of the 17th century. This peri...
ICON mission ends with critical breakthroughs on Earth, space weather
Jul 24, 2024 (UPI)
NASA's ICON mission gathered valuable data as it orbited the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, about 55 miles to 360 miles into space in the ionosphere, an...
Solar storm may cause northern lights to be visible from New York to Idaho
Jul 23, 2024 (UPI)
The NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G2 geomagnetic storm watch for early Wednesday. It said the northern lights or aurora borealis, as the pheno...
Washington DC and Milwaukee Among US Cities Most at Risk from Space Weather
Jul 21, 2024 (SPX)
The British Geological Survey (BGS) conducted a study revealing that some US regions are more prone to the impacts of geomagnetic storms. These storms are cause...
New Method to Accurately Predict Solar Storms to Protect Earth's Technology
Jul 21, 2024 (SPX)
CMEs, which are bursts of gas and magnetic fields from the solar atmosphere, can cause geomagnetic storms that disrupt technology both in Earth's orbit and on i...
Early signs of Solar Cycle 26 detected nidway through Cycle 25
Jul 19, 2024 (SPX)
Currently at its peak or 'solar maximum,' Cycle 25 has seen the Sun's magnetic field flip, causing an increase in sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections. ...
NASA Mission to Study Mysteries in the Origin of Solar Radio Waves
Jul 10, 2024 (SPX)
The CURIE mission aims to advance our understanding using a technique called low frequency radio interferometry, which has never been used in space before. This...
Predicting and Mitigating the Impact of Auroras on Earth's Infrastructure
Jul 10, 2024 (SPX)
"Auroras and geomagnetically induced currents are caused by similar space weather drivers," explained Dr. Denny Oliveira of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, ...
Parker Solar Probe Achieves 20th Close Encounter with the Sun
Jul 08, 2024 (SPX)
"The close approach (known as perihelion) occurred at 3:47 UTC (11:47 p.m. EDT on June 29), with Parker Solar Probe moving 394,736 miles per hour (635,266 kilom...
NYU Abu Dhabi Scientists Unveil Insights on Solar Heat Transport
Jun 26, 2024 (SPX)
Energy produced by nuclear fusion in the sun's core travels to the surface, where it is released as sunlight. In the paper "Supergranular-scale solar convection...
US launches satellite to better prepare for space weather
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the satellite into orbit took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:26 pm (2126 GMT), the US space agency a...
Solar Orbiter Observes Major Solar Activity
Jun 21, 2024 (SPX)
In the weekend of 10-12 May 2024, the biggest solar storm to hit Earth in over 20 years swept over our planet. This produced an intense geomagnetic storm, creat...
Photographer's Discovery and Swarm Data Reveal Steve's Twin
Jun 06, 2024 (SPX)
Steve was first identified a few years ago by the Alberta Aurora Chasers Facebook group. Its mauve hue and fleeting appearance differentiated it from the aurora...
Mystery of 'slow' solar wind unveiled by Solar Orbiter mission
May 29, 2024 (SPX)
Solar wind, which can travel at hundreds of kilometres per second, has fascinated scientists for years, and new research published in Nature Astronomy, is final...
Sunspot Formation Explained by Solar Physicists
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
The "solar dynamo" might start in the sun's outer layers rather than its interior, said Benjamin Brown, a solar physicist at CU Boulder. "Galileo first observed...
Airbus awarded 340 million euro ESA contract for Vigil satellite
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
A declaration celebrating the contract was signed by ESA, Airbus Defence and Space, and the UK Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation at the Roy...
The origin of the sun's magnetic field could lie close to its surface
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper appearing in Nature, researchers at MIT, the University of Edinburgh, and elsewhere find that the sun's magnetic field could arise from instabilities...
NASA selects instrument for solar study on ESA mission
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
JEDI's two telescopes will be integrated into the ESA's (European Space Agency's) Vigil space weather mission. They will focus on the middle layer of the solar ...
China establishes advanced radar network for global space weather monitoring
May 21, 2024 (SPX)
The initial scientific results from the network were presented at the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) international workshop in Beijing. Constructe...
Solar Storm's Impact Detected in Deep Sea Observatories
May 20, 2024 (SPX)
ONC's subsea observatories on Canada's coasts recorded temporary distortions in the Earth's magnetic field on instrument platforms deployed as deep as 2.7 kilom...
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