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Rockets to uncover electric circuit that powers the Northern Lights
Nov 17, 2022 (SPX)
High above us, electrons from space stream into our sky. As they wind down Earth's magnetic field lines, they strike gases in our atmosphere, causing them to gl...
Solar snake spotted slithering across Sun's surface
Nov 15, 2022 (ESA)
Plasma is a state of matter in which a gas is so hot that its atoms begin to lose some of their outer particles, called electrons. This loss makes the gas elect...
Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Nov 09, 2022 (SPX)
For North America, the partial eclipse began at 4:09 a.m. EST, with totality beginning at 5:16 a.m. One feature of a total lunar eclipse is the Moon's red hue d...
Last chance to see Total Lunar Eclipse until 2025
Nov 04, 2022 (SPX)
According to Alphonse Sterling, astrophysicist from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, total lunar eclipses occur approximately once ev...
Two solar eclipses are coming to America
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
This annular (Latin for ring-shaped) solar eclipse will be visible within a roughly 125-mile-wide path from Oregon to Texas and on into Mexico, Central America,...
Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth's rotation
Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Japanese researchers combed through records from the Byzantine Empire to identify and...
Solar Orbiter solves magnetic switchback mystery
Sep 12, 2022 (ESA)
Solar Orbiter has made the first ever remote sensing observation consistent with a magnetic phenomenon called a solar switchback - sudden and large deflections ...
Scientists reveal magnetic reconnection details triggering filament eruption
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
Both observations and simulations suggest that filament eruption is closely related to magnetic flux emergence. It is thought that eruption is triggered by magn...
Solar satellite breaks ground with new data
Aug 31, 2022 (XNA)
The satellite Xihe, named after the sun goddess in ancient Chinese mythology, has carried out spectral scanning and imaging of the sun's H-Alpha waveband and ha...
NASA schedules SwRI-led PUNCH mission to launch in 2025
Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)
PUNCH, which will study the inception of the solar wind, has secured its ride into Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, sharing a ride into space with NASA's S...
How scientist established a two-stage solar flare early warning system?
Aug 24, 2022 (SPX)
First of all, the author introduced the data used in the paper and analyzed them from the statistical point of view to provide a basis for the design of the sol...
Gaia reveals the past and future of the Sun
Aug 12, 2022 (ESA)
Gaia's third major data release (DR3) was made public on 13 June 2022. One of the major products to come out of this release was a database of the intrinsic pro...
Space weather will delay your trains
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
The sun's tendency to affect technology on Earth, as well as in space, is known as space weather. In railways, electric currents caused to flow in the earth by ...
China to launch first comprehensive solar probe
Jul 13, 2022 (SPX)
From Monday to July 24, the research institute is gathering suggestions from the public for names to give the milestone instrument, which weighs 888 kilograms a...
Why Does the Inside of the Solar System Not Spin Faster
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
These features, called accretion disks, last tens of millions of years and are an early phase of solar system evolution. They contain a small fraction of the ma...
SwRI demonstrates machine learning tool to efficiently process complex solar data
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
As space instrument packages collect increasingly complex data in ever-increasing volumes, it is becoming more challenging for scientists to process and analyze...
A new method for predicting the 11-year solar cycle strength
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
Sunspots are visual manifestations of powerful magnetic fields that have risen from the solar interior through its surface. The magnetic tubes carrying solar ma...
Novel NASA instrument sets sights on Earth-bound solar radiation
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
About the size of a shoebox or gaming console, the Compact Total Irradiance Monitor (CTIM) is the smallest satellite ever dispatched to observe the sum of all s...
Are the Sun's magnetic arches an optical illusion
Jun 19, 2022 (SPX)
In extreme ultraviolet light, the Sun resembles a rumpled ball of yarn. It teems with giant radiant arcs known as coronal loops soaring through the Sun's corona...
NJIT researchers unveil particle accelerator region inside a solar flare
Jun 09, 2022 (SPX)
Now, in a study published June 8 in Nature, researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have pinpointed the precise location where solar flare char...
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