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Sun's coldest region stores secret to heating million-degree corona, study finds
Jun 15, 2023 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has a new answer to the question - commonly referred to as the Sun's coronal heating problem - with new observational data o...
USTC reveals reconfiguration process of solar eruptions
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
In classical images, the core structure of a solar eruption is a magnetic rope consisted of spirally wound magnetic lines. When the eruption begins, the magneti...
Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source
Jun 08, 2023 (SPX)
It's like seeing jets of water emanating from a showerhead through the blast of water hitting you in the face. In a paper to be published this week in the journ...
New study identifies mechanism driving the sun's fast wind
Jun 08, 2023 (SPX)
In a paper published June 7, 2023 in the journal Nature, a team of researchers used data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe to explain how the solar wind is capable...
Space missions set to improve solar storm forecasts
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
Experts from the University of Reading have found that using satellite data that is less reliable but is returned to Earth rapidly can be used to improve the ac...
NASA releases new solar eclipse educational materials
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
My NASA Data, in collaboration with the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), has released a new set of resources for educators centered arou...
Space waves offer new clues to space weather
May 17, 2023 (SPX)
The group's latest research, published on May 4, 2023, by the journal Nature Communications, shows that seasonal and daily variations in the Earth's magnetic ti...
Temperature of solar flares helps understand nature of solar plasma
May 17, 2023 (SPX)
The chromosphere is a thin layer of plasma that lies at least 2,000 km above the Sun's visible surface (the photosphere) and below the corona (the Sun's upper a...
SwRI scientists get close-up views of energetic particle jets ejected from the Sun
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
"In 2022, the Solar Orbiter detected six recurrent energetic ion injections. Particles emanated along the jets, a signature of magnetic reconnection involving f...
SwRI selected for Phase A study to develop next-generation NOAA coronagraph
May 10, 2023 (SPX)
CMEs are huge bursts of coronal plasma threaded with intense magnetic fields ejected from the Sun over the course of several hours. CMEs arriving at Earth can g...
Do your homework to prep for the 2023 and 2024 eclipses and beyond
May 04, 2023 (SPX)
Both occurrences promise to be remarkable events and teachable moments. But preparation is essential. In The Physics Teacher, co-published by AIP Publishing and...
NASA awards contracts for NOAA Coronagraph Instrument Phase A Study
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
The firms selected are Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL), Laurel, Maryland; EO Vista, Acton, Massachusetts; University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmosph...
SwRI-led team observes Australian eclipse in preparation for 2024 US eclipse
Apr 21, 2023 (SPX)
The CATE 2024 team traveled nearly 10,000 miles for one minute of totality to observe the Sun's corona from the unique perspective offered by total solar eclips...
Clouds for your eclipse? NASA experiment will fly kite to rise above
Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)
That's what happened to University of Hawaii astronomer Shadia Habbal - several times. After traveling all the way to Antarctica on her latest expedition to stu...
NASA-enabled AI predictions may give time to prepare for solar storms
Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)
The Sun constantly sheds solar material into space - both in a steady flow known as the "solar wind," and in shorter, more energetic bursts from solar eruptions...
Sweden's sky lights up with northern lights research
Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)
The northern lights, also known as aurora borealis or polar lights, appear as swathes of blue, green and purple lights flickering and dancing across the sky. Th...
Powerful solar eruption on far side of Sun still impacted Earth
Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)
The CME erupted from the side of the Sun opposite Earth. While resarchers are still gathering data to determine the source of the eruption, it is currently beli...
NASA announces future launch for USU-led space weather mission
Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)
AWE Principal Investigator Michael Taylor from USU's College of Science leads a team of scientists that will provide new details about how the weather on Earth ...
NASA releases detailed map of upcoming eclipses
Mar 09, 2023 (UPI)
Data from multiple past NASA missions was used to create the map and calculate the position of the moon's shadow during upcoming annular and total eclipses that...
Solved: The Mystery of the Cloudy Filters
Mar 07, 2023 (SPX)
These detectors can warn us about impending solar storms - bursts of radiation from the surface of the Sun - that could reach Earth and temporarily disrupt comm...
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