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Xihe Space Telescope Enhances Understanding of Solar Plasma Dynamics
Feb 06, 2024 (SPX)
The Xihe telescope, named after the Chinese sun goddess and operating in a sun-synchronous orbit, is at the forefront of this endeavor, providing unprecedented ...
The hottest catalog of the year: the most comprehensive list of slow-building solar flares yet
Feb 01, 2024 (SPX)
Although flares have been classified based on the amount of energy they emit at their peak, there has not been significant study into differentiating flares bas...
How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Is Different than the 2017 Eclipse
Jan 31, 2024 (SPX)
In 2017, an estimated 215 million U.S. adults (88% of U.S. adults) viewed the solar eclipse, either directly or electronically. They experienced the Moon pass i...
China's AIMS telescope achieves unprecedented accuracy in solar observations
Jan 31, 2024 (SPX)
Chief Engineer Wang Dongguang of the Huairou Solar Observing Station, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed that the AIMS telescope has conducted the ...
What the next solar maximum means for you
Jan 29, 2024 (SPX)
The scientific study of space weather attempts to understand, track, and forecast this solar activity, which peaks with the solar maximum every 11 years. The cu...
ISRO's Aditya-L1 enters Halo Orbit for Solar Studies
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
Launched in early September last year, Aditya-L1 has been on a trajectory towards the Sun. It has now settled into a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Po...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes 18th Close Approach to the Sun
Jan 09, 2024 (SPX)
The close approach (known as perihelion) occurred at 7:56 p.m. EST, with Parker Solar Probe traveling at 394,736 miles per hour (635,266 kilometers per hour) ar...
India's Sun probe reaches solar orbit
Jan 06, 2024 (AFP)
The Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the Sun's outermost layers. India's science and t...
Face to face with Sun-eclipsing Proba-3
Jan 03, 2024 (ESA)
Ahead of the Proba-3 pair launching together later this year, the scientists who will make use of Proba-3 observations were able to see the satellites with thei...
NASA Selects Ball Aerospace for ECCCO Mission Concept Study
Dec 26, 2023 (SPX)
The proposed mission would use a wide-field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager (ECCCO-I) and a pair of imaging EUV spectrographs (ECCCO-S) to provide the first co...
Huge solar flare, strongest since 2017, disrupts Earth radio communications
Dec 15, 2023 (UPI)
"This is likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded," the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center said in a statement. "Radio communication interfe...
HelioCloud Leads Heliophysics Research into the Cloud Computing Revolution
Dec 12, 2023 (SPX)
HelioCloud emerges as a novel solution for the heliophysics community, offering a streamlined, web-browser-based interface that simplifies the process of conduc...
When is an aurora not an aurora
Dec 11, 2023 (SPX)
First recognized in 2018 as distinct from the common auroras, Steve - a tongue-in-cheek reference to the benign name given a scary hedge in a 2006 children's mo...
Unique CU Boulder, NSO collaboration allows journey into varied solar physics research paths
Dec 10, 2023 (SPX)
The George Ellery Hale Fellowships, created by the University of Colorado Boulder in partnership with NSF's National Solar Observatory, include every year a two...
1872 Chapman-Silverman Storm: A window into solar impact on modern life
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
The study, conducted by a team from nine countries, provides in-depth insights into the solar origins and the extensive effects of the 1872 storm on Earth. As h...
New theory explains how magnetic switchbacks form in the solar wind
Dec 01, 2023 (SPX)
Magnetic switchbacks are reversals of the radial magnetic field in the solar wind, which emanates from the surface of the sun. First seen sporadically in the se...
Solar activity likely to peak next year, new study suggests
Nov 29, 2023 (SPX)
Our star, the Sun, is made up of hot ionized gas known as plasma. Huge plasma flows and convection conspire together to form magnetic fields inside the Sun whic...
SwRI's PUNCH Mission Set for 2025 Launch: A New Era in Solar Wind Study
Nov 28, 2023 (SPX)
PUNCH, a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission, is poised to deepen our understanding of the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere visible during total solar eclipses...
Virtual Observatory provides first look at the Solar poles
Nov 20, 2023 (SPX)
"The best way to see the solar poles is obviously to send more satellites, but that is very expensive," said Benoit Tremblay, a researcher at the U.S. National ...
NASA's Solar Jet Hunter Project Revived with Fresh Data and New Interactive Tasks
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
Solar jets, the spectacular ejections of matter from the Sun's surface, have long captivated scientists due to their potential to shed light on the celestial bo...
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