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The effects of Aurora Borealis on energy grids with the addition of renewables
Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)
In one of the first documented incidents, the 1859 Carrington Event, an extreme solar flare caused telegraph systems to go haywire worldwide. Likewise the magne...
Mercury's black disc helps sharpen Solar Orbiter's view
Feb 22, 2023 (ESA)
A number of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter's instruments captured the transit. In the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) image, Mercury is seen as a black c...
Researchers discover mysterious source of 'heartbeat-like' radio bursts in a solar fare
Feb 22, 2023 (SPX)
In findings published in the journal Nature Communications, an international team of researchers has reported uncovering the source location of a radio signal c...
China, Europe cooperate in satellite-rocket test
Feb 20, 2023 (XNA)
A Chinese satellite team from the SMILE mission recently traveled to the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) of the European Space Agency (ESA...
NASA's NuSTAR reveals hidden light shows on the Sun
Feb 10, 2023 (JPL)
In the composite image above (left), NuSTAR data is represented as blue and is overlaid with observations by the X-ray Telescope (XRT) on the Japanese Aerospace...
How a 3 cm glass sphere could help scientists understand space weather
Jan 25, 2023 (SPX)
But a new study by UCLA physicists could, at last, help conquer that issue - which could be a big step toward safeguarding humans (and equipment) during space e...
Chinese, European Mars probes help examine atmosphere near sun
Jan 17, 2023 (XNA)
During the late September to mid-October stretch in 2021, China's Mars orbiter experienced its first sun transit, when its communication with Earth was signific...
China's space-based solar camera publishes data on solar atmosphere
Jan 12, 2023 (XNA)
The 46.5-nanometer extreme-ultraviolet imager or Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI), mounted on SATech 01 satellite, was launched into space on July 2...
NASA missions find 'jetlets' could power the solar wind
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
Observations from multiple space and ground-based observatories show the solar wind could be largely fueled by small-scale jets, or "jetlets," at the base of th...
KSAT to support NOAA's Deep Space Solar Observatory
Jan 06, 2023 (SPX)
Increased solar activity in recent weeks has provided opportunities for many in the Northern Hemisphere to view the aurora borealis at latitudes where it typica...
SPORT and petitSat cubesats to shed light on space weather disturbances
Jan 01, 2023 (SPX)
Scientists on both missions are most interested in studying a layer in Earth's upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The ionosphere is where the impacts of ...
New study models the transmission of foreshock waves towards Earth
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
"How the waves would survive passing through the shock has remained a mystery since the waves were first discovered in the 1970s. No evidence of those waves has...
The world's largest turbulence simulation unmasks the flow of energy in astrophysical plasmas
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The discovery at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) could improve tackling a range of astrophysical puzzles such a...
Scientists develop low-cost system to measure space weather without leaving the ground
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
"In recent years, space travel by private citizens has become more common. In addition, the Japan-US-EU joint Gateway Projects to build a space station in lunar...
Precise solar observations fed millions in ancient Mexico
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
Before the Spanish arrival in 1519, the Basin of Mexico's agricultural system fed a population that was extraordinarily large for the time. Whereas Seville, the...
SwRI study describes first ultraviolet imaging of Sun's Middle Corona
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
Since 1995, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has observed the Sun's corona with the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) st...
AIR scientists design digital ionosonde for Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
The ionosphere stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth's surface, right at the edge of space, and it will influence the operations of communication system...
Cosmic ray counts hidden in spacecraft data highlight influence of solar cycle at Mars and Venus
Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)
A comparison of data from the ASPERA plasma sensor, an instrument carried by both spacecraft, with the number of sunspots visible on the surface of the Sun show...
Researchers observe directly turbulent magnetic reconnection in solar wind
Dec 05, 2022 (SPX)
Magnetic reconnection is an energy-releasing process that causes explosive phenomena in interplanetary space. During the process, the magnetic energy is rapidly...
China's space-based observatory sends first solar image
Nov 25, 2022 (XNA)
The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) - nicknamed Kuafu-1 in Chinese - sent hard X-ray imaging of solar flares that broke out at 1:00 a.m. (Univers...
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