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NASA explores solar wind with new view of small sun structures
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
The Sun's magnetic influence stretches billions of miles, far past the orbit of Pluto and the planets, defined by a driving force: the solar wind. This constant...
Solar activity reconstructed over a millennium
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
Thanks to that, we now know that the number of spots varies in regular eleven-year cycles and that, moreover, there are long-lasting periods of strong and weak ...
NASA, Poland to build instrument to study interplanetary space
Jan 15, 2021 (SPX)
Scheduled to launch no earlier than February 2025, IMAP will observe and map the Sun's heliosphere - the volume of space filled with particles streaming out fro...
Energy from solar wind favours the north
Jan 13, 2021 (ESA)
The Sun bathes our planet with the light and heat to sustain life, but it also bombards us with dangerous charged particles in the solar wind. These charged par...
Space Dynamics Lab achieves critical milestone for NASA space weather mission
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
Planned to be ready for launch to the International Space Station in 2022, AWE will study atmospheric gravity waves in Earth's atmosphere to gain deeper knowled...
Secrets behind sunquakes could lurk beneath the solar surface
Jan 06, 2021 (SPX)
These earthquake-like events release acoustic energy in the form of waves that ripple along the Sun's surface, like waves on a lake, in the minutes following a ...
NASA approves two new missions to study space weather
Dec 30, 2020 (UPI)
Both the Extreme Ultraviolent High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer mission, or EZIE, ai...
NASA Approves Heliophysics Missions to Explore Sun, Earth's Aurora
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
Understanding the physics that drive the solar wind and solar explosions - including solar flares and coronal mass ejections - could one day help scientists pre...
The upside of volatile space weather
Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)
Emitted by stars, stellar flares are sudden flashes of magnetic energy. On Earth, the sun's flares sometimes damage satellites and disrupt radio communications....
Artificial intelligence sets sights on the sun
Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)
The Sun is the only star where we can discern surface details and study plasma under extreme conditions. The solar surface and atmospheric layers are strongly i...
Solar Orbiter: turning pictures into physics
Dec 11, 2020 (ESA)
"I could not be more pleased with the performance of Solar Orbiter and the various teams that keep it and its instruments operating," says Daniel Muller, ESA So...
New sunspot cycle could be one of the strongest on record, new research predicts
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
In a new article published in Solar Physics, the research team predicts that Sunspot Cycle 25 will peak with a maximum sunspot number somewhere between approxim...
Scientists get the lowdown on sun's super-hot atmosphere
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
Images from the Earth-orbiting Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, aka IRIS, and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, aka AIA, show evidence that low-lying magn...
NASA Selects Heliophysics Missions of Opportunity for Space Science Research and Technology Demonstration
Dec 07, 2020 (SPX)
The launch of the IMAP mission in 2025 to the first Lagrangian equilibrium point (L1), about 1 million miles towards the Sun, will be a pathfinder for NASA's ne...
Inouye Solar Telescope releases first image of a sunspot
Dec 07, 2020 (SPX)
The image, taken January 28, 2020, is not the same naked eye sunspot currently visible on the Sun. This sunspot image accompanies a new paper by Dr. Thomas Rimm...
World's largest solar observatory releases first image of a sunspot
Dec 04, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers released the image in conjunction with a new paper -- published Friday in the journal Solar Physics -- describing the telescope's mechanical feature...
SOHO's pioneering 25 years in orbit
Dec 03, 2020 (ESA)
Two and a half decades of scientific discovery is a major milestone for any space mission. But when the spacecraft at the heart of the celebration was only desi...
Solar superstorms of the past help NASA scientists understand risks for satellites
Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)
These satellites orbit in a normally quiet region hundreds of miles above the surface, at the edge of Earth's atmosphere. Usually, the satellites only feel a ge...
Killer electrons in strumming sky lights
Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)
The study was a collaboration between scientists in Japan, including at Nagoya University, and colleagues in the US, including from NASA. The northern and south...
The Eventual Fate of Our Solar System
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
Studying the likely fate of our solar system is "one of the oldest pursuits of astrophysics, tracing back to Newton himself," according to the opening of a rece...
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