SOLAR SCIENCE - INDO DAILY

Jun 01, 2022 (SPX)

A team of astronomers from the University of Geneva, Switzerland (UNIGE) in collaboration with the Universite de Liege, has developed a new theoretical model th...

Researchers reveal hemispheric asymmetry of long-term sunspot activity

May 26, 2022 (SPX)

This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Solar sunspots are the most easily visible structures in the photosphere. They are...

New calculations of Solar spectrum resolve decade-long controversy about the Sun's chemical composition

May 20, 2022 (SPX)

What do you do when a tried-and-true method for determining the Sun's chemical composition appears to be at odds with an innovative, precise technique for mappi...

The Sun as you've never seen it before

May 19, 2022 (ESA)

Solar Orbiter's closest approach to the Sun, known as perihelion, took place on 26 March. The spacecraft was inside the orbit of Mercury, at about one-third the...

NASA's SDO sees sun release strong solar flare

May 04, 2022 (SPX)

Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks...

WVU scientists take on pioneering space weather research and forecasting project

May 03, 2022 (SPX)

Space weather is a relatively unexplored phenomenon that is caused by large bursts of particles released by the sun. The unusually strong bursts result in geoma...

Scientists crack 60-year mystery of fast magnetic explosions

Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)

It's not just a scientific curiosity: A fuller understanding of magnetic reconnection could enable insights into nuclear fusion and provide better predictions o...

NASA gives boost to Boston University-led effort to model solar system's protective bubble

Apr 28, 2022 (SPX)

Founded in 2020, the center won the funding as part of NASA's DRIVE (Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate) Science Centers program. In the program's ...

Perseverance captures video of solar eclipse on Mars

Apr 22, 2022 (JPL)

Captured with Perseverance's next-generation Mastcam-Z camera on April 2, the 397th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, the eclipse lasted a little over 40 sec...

Sun Releases Significant Solar Flare

Apr 19, 2022 (SPX)

Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks...

New Solar observations could help develop better solar thermometer

Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)

A team of astrophysicists led by researchers from the University of Glasgow are the first to use observations from the ALMA observatory in Chile to estimate the...

Eclipse Over Texas: Live From Waco To Celebrate April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)

"If you missed experiencing totality during the 2017 Great American Eclipse, you have another chance in 2024 to see for yourself the silvery filaments of the so...

Tracking sunspots up close

Mar 28, 2022 (ESA)

In the days leading up to and around 'Perihelion passage', teams at ESA have been working intensively on an observation campaign, and all ten instruments will b...

Scientists solve solar secret

Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)

Study lead Dr Jonathan Squire, of the Department of Physics, says the surface of the Sun starts at 6000 degC, but over a short distance of only a few hundred ki...

Nearby star could help explain why our Sun didn't have sunspots for 70 years

Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)

The star-and a catalog of 5 decades of starspot activity of 58 other Sun-like stars-is described in a new paper that appears online in the Astronomical Journal....

A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet

Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)

What the world experienced that day, now known as the Carrington Event, was a massive geomagnetic storm. These storms occur when a large bubble of superheated g...

Black swifts descended rapidly during lunar eclipse

Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)

The black swift is a bird species with a bulky body and long, pointed wings. The plumage is black with some white areas on its head, and its call is a series of...

Smile payload module travels to China

Mar 17, 2022 (ESA)

Smile is a joint mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and will aim to build a more complete understanding of the Sun-Earth connection b...

Telescopes trained on Parker Solar Probe's latest pass around the Sun

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

These powerful instruments can't actually see Parker itself - the van-sized spacecraft is far too small for visible detection - but they offer from a distance w...

NASA sounding rocket to study the origin of slow solar winds

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

Just as winds on Earth vary, the solar winds departing the Sun travel at different velocities - from a mere 700,000 mph, called slow solar winds, to the fast wi...