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China launches new satellite for space environment survey
Apr 11, 2021 (Xinhua)
The satellite, the third of the Shiyan-6 series, was launched by a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 7:01 a.m. (Beijing Time). It will be used to carry out space ...
Why we need to get better at predicting space weather
Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)
Disturbances on the Sun, such as coronal mass ejections produced by solar flares that emanate from active sunspot regions, can cause solar storms. Solar flares ...
Water mission takes on space weather
Mar 26, 2021 (ESA)
The SMOS satellite carries a novel interferometric radiometer that operates at a frequency of 1.4 GHz in the L-band microwave range of the electromagnetic spect...
Algorithms inspired by social networks reveal lifecycle of substorms
Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)
Analysis by researchers led by the University of Warwick has revealed that these substorms manifest as global-scale electrical current systems associated with t...
Social networking algorithms help in study of space weather, substorms
Mar 23, 2021 (UPI)
The discovery was made possible by the same algorithms that help social networking sites match like-minded friends. Researchers amassed data on disturbances in ...
Chinese solar telescope reveals acceleration of magnetic reconnection
Mar 15, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers led by Dr. LI Leping from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) analyzed the evolution of magnetic recon...
In first, scientists trace fastest solar particles to their roots on the Sun
Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)
A new study tracing three SEP bursts back to the Sun has provided the first answer. "We have for the first time been able to pinpoint the specific sources of th...
Explaining Parker Solar Probe's magnetic puzzle
Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists think piecing together the story of switchbacks is an important part of understanding the solar wind, the constant stream of charged particles that f...
The aurora's very high altitude booster
Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)
The story of aurora formation begins with supersonic plasma propelled from the Sun into space as high-speed, charged particles. When these charged particles get...
Source of hazardous high-energy particles located in the Sun
Mar 04, 2021 (SPX)
These particles are highly charged and, if they reach Earth's atmosphere, can potentially disrupt satellites and electronic infrastructure, as well as pose a ra...
Why the Sun's composition varies
Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)
His most recent scientific journal article describes how these magnetic waves modify chemical composition in a process completely new to solar physics or astrop...
Investigating dense plasmas with positron waves
Feb 26, 2021 (SPX)
A new study published in EPJ D by Garston Tiofack, Faculty of Sciences, University of Marousa, Cameroon, and colleagues, assesses the dynamics of positron acous...
Sounding rocket CLASP2 elucidates solar magnetic field
Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)
This is the first time that the magnetic field in the chromosphere has been charted all the way up to its top. This finding brings us closer to understanding ho...
NASA missions make unprecedented map of Sun's magnetic field
Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)
More than a hundred years later, the chromosphere remains the most mysterious of the Sun's atmospheric layers. Sandwiched between the bright surface and the eth...
Ball Aerospace to build spacecraft for NASA Heliophysics Science Mission
Feb 10, 2021 (SPX)
Dr. Lara Waldrop of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the principal investigator for GLIDE and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is ...
Solar flare expected to start hitting earth Wednesday
Feb 02, 2021 (UPI)
The flare is the result of a coronal mass ejection, a large expulsion of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun's corona, which can travel from the Sun to Earth...
New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
The new concept would accelerate the particles using magnetic reconnection, a process found throughout the universe, including the surface of the sun, in which ...
Magnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
One explanation is that, in the middle layer (the chromosphere), magnetic waves exert a force that separates the Sun's plasma into different components, so that...
Study reveals new insights into the link between sunlight exposure and kidney damage
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
Lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation of the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs, is caused when the immune system att...
China's first solar probe to be lofted in 2022
Jan 22, 2021 (XNA)
The satellite will operate in a sun-synchronous orbit 720 km above Earth to keep a close tab on the sun 24 hours a day. Measuring about 1,000 kg in total mass, ...
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