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Calling all Eclipse Enthusiasts: Become a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador!
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
In this exciting NASA partnership funded through NASA's Science Activation program, undergraduate students and experienced eclipse enthusiasts who become Eclips...
Calling all Eclipse Enthusiasts: Become a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador!
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
In this exciting NASA partnership funded through NASA's Science Activation program, undergraduate students and experienced eclipse enthusiasts who become Eclips...
Scholars Probe Lunar Mysteries: Solar Wind Interaction Explored
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, presents a unique environment for study, lacking a significant atmosphere and a global magnetic field. This means that...
The importance of the Earth's atmosphere in creating the large storms that affect satellite communications
Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)
Understanding the factors that cause geomagnetic storms is important because they can have a direct impact on the Earth's magnetic field such as causing unwante...
Researchers capture first images of a radio 'ring of fire' solar eclipse
Oct 24, 2023 (SPX)
The eclipse was partially visible to much of the continental U.S. for several hours that Saturday, though the full "ring of fire" effect was only visible for le...
Patterns in Sun's layers has implications for longstanding solar mystery
Oct 20, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers from the Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC) at the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's have collected groundbreaking data with the US N...
Skygazers watch 'Ring of Fire' eclipse over Western Hemisphere
Oct 15, 2023 (AFP)
A crowd of people wearing protective eyewear gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of many across the western United States watching as the Moon passed betwe...
Tracing the origin and energization of plasma in the heliosphere
Oct 11, 2023 (SPX)
The universe is mostly made of hydrogen, but the elements that make up life as well as the planets, comets, and many other celestial bodies are heavier than hyd...
CfA-SwRI heliophysics mission selected for Phase A mission definition study
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
"ECCCO will answer fundamental questions about the origins of the mass and energy flow that link the Sun to the outer corona and overall heliosphere, the 'bubbl...
New center will lay groundwork for better space weather forecasts
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
This summer, NASA announced that it had selected four Space Weather Centers of Excellence, including the Space Weather Operational Readiness Development (SWORD)...
NASA will fly into Oct. eclipse's shadow
Oct 01, 2023 (SPX)
On Oct. 14, 2023, viewers of an annular solar eclipse in the Americas will experience the Sun dimming to 10% its normal brightness, leaving only a bright "ring ...
Your Interactive Guide to the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse
Oct 01, 2023 (SPX)
What Is the 2023 Eclipse Explorer? The 2023 Eclipse Explorer demonstrates that celestial events are predictable down to the second. Unlike traditional static ma...
China's solar telescope array officially completed
Oct 01, 2023 (SPX)
The CAS said that the telescope array is a landmark equipment of the country's space environment ground-base comprehensive monitoring network (phase-2 Meridian ...
NASA announces launch services for pair of space weather satellites
Oct 01, 2023 (SPX)
TRACERS will be an important addition to NASA's heliophysics fleet and aims to answer long-standing questions critical to understanding the Sun-Earth system. Th...
NASA selects four small explorer mission concept studies
Oct 01, 2023 (SPX)
Any missions selected to move forward after the concept studies are conducted will join the current heliophysics mission fleet, which not only provides deeper i...
Parker observes powerful coronal mass ejection 'vacuum up' interplanetary dust
Sep 23, 2023 (SPX)
A 2003 paper theorized that CMEs may interact with interplanetary dust in orbit around our star and even carry the dust outward. CMEs are immense eruptions from...
China to launch solar probe to unexplored L5 point in 2026
Sep 18, 2023 (XNA)
The appraisal work of Xihe 2 solar exploration mission to the Sun-Earth L5 Lagrangian Point are in the pipeline, said Fang Cheng, one of the satellite's designe...
Coming Soon: A Ring of Fire in the Sky
Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)
A map developed using data from a variety of NASA sources shows a detailed eclipse path and what observers across the States can expect to see at their local ti...
Camera hack lets Solar Orbiter peer deeper into Sun's atmosphere
Sep 08, 2023 (ESA)
Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) returns high-resolution images of the structures in the Sun's atmosphere. Scientists call this region the coron...
How is ESA supporting ISRO's Aditya-L1 solar mission
Sep 04, 2023 (ESA)
It's an ambitious mission that will generate vast quantities of science data as the spacecraft balances in an unstable orbit. With its global network of deep sp...
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