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Which way does the solar wind blow?
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
Astronomers have studied the sun's activity for centuries with greater and greater understanding. Today, computers are central to the quest to understand the su...
Reliable space weather forecasting
May 31, 2021 (SPX)
The Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) studies space weather and conducts r...
NASA Interns help to solve the Terminator Problem via GLOBE Challenge
May 25, 2021 (SPX)
What is the terminator problem? The solar terminator (or "twilight zone") is the line that separates the daylit side of a planet from the dark night side. From ...
May's Full Moon comes with Supermoon Eclipse
May 25, 2021 (SPX)
The Moon will be located on Earth's opposite side from the Sun and fully illuminated May 26, 2021, at 6:13 a.m. CDT. This Full Moon was known by early Native Am...
Everything you need to know for the May 26 Lunar Eclipse
May 21, 2021 (SPX)
No one has seen a total lunar eclipse since January 20-21, 2019, but the drought is finally ending. Viewers in the western half of North America, western South ...
A new space instrument captures its first solar eruption
May 18, 2021 (SPX)
On February 12, 2021, a little more than a year from its launch, the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter caught sight of this coronal mass ejection, ...
NASA rocket chasing the source of the Sun's hot atmosphere
May 18, 2021 (SPX)
The mission, known as Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, or EUNIS for short, will launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The l...
Solar wind from the center of the Earth
May 17, 2021 (SPX)
The rare class of iron meteorites make up only five percent of all known meteorite finds on Earth. Most are fragments from inside larger asteroids that formed m...
Scientists invent a method for predicting solar radio flux for two years ahead
May 13, 2021 (SPX)
Since the launch of Sputnik, the Earth's first artificial satellite, in 1957, more than 41,500 tons of manmade objects have been placed in orbit around the Sun,...
Space weather is difficult to predict - with only an hour to prevent disasters on Earth
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
Our lives are affected by short-term atmospheric variations of weather on Earth, and we fear that longer-term climate change will also have a large impact. The ...
Physicists describe new type of aurora
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study, physicists led by the University of Iowa report a new feature to Earth's atmospheric light show. Examining video taken nearly two decades ago, t...
Confirmation of an auroral phenomenon discovered by Finns
May 05, 2021 (SPX)
Observations made by University of Helsinki researchers increased the validity of a speculative mechanism according to which a type of aurora borealis named 'du...
Latest Observations by MUSER Help Clarify Solar Eruptions
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
The study was published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences on March 29. It may help us better understand the basic nature of solar eruptions. Solar ra...
First solar eclipse of 2022 seen across South America, Antarctica
Apr 30, 2021 (UPI)
A live stream of the partial solar eclipse began at 3:30 p.m. EDT and ended when the sun sunk below the horizon. "If skies are clear, this eclipse is visible fr...
New computer model helps brings the sun into the laboratory
Apr 29, 2021 (SPX)
The discovery comes from a new computer model that predicts the behavior of the plasma in the region above the surface of the sun known as the solar corona. The...
Scientists hope Interstellar Probe will reveal secrets of the heliosphere
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
In recent years, NASA has launched a number of missions aiming at studying the sun and its many mysterious phenomena. With a new proposed new mission, Scientist...
Campfires offer clue to solar heating mystery
Apr 28, 2021 (ESA)
Mystery heating The Sun has a mysterious feature: somehow the tenuous outer atmosphere contains gas with a temperature of a million degrees, yet the solar surfa...
Scientists propose new formation mechanism for solar coronal rain
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
Coronal rain usually takes place in post-flare loops and the non-flaring active region coronal loops. It is generally classified into two categories: flare-driv...
NASA rocket to survey our solar system's windshield
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
"It's really the largest boundary of its kind we can study," said Walt Harris, space physicist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. We still know little abou...
Plasma ejections from the sun could cause damage on Earth, scientists say
Apr 14, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists say that the solar activity -- called a geomagnetic storm -- will produce a magnetic discharge and send it in the direction toward Earth. In other wo...
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