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NSF's National Solar observatory predicts a large sunspot for Thanksgiving
Nov 25, 2020 (SPX)
"We measured a change in acoustic signals on the far-side of the Sun", explains Dr. Alexei Pevtsov, Associate Director for NSO's Integrated Synoptic Program, th...
Making Waves on the Sun
Nov 19, 2020 (SPX)
When you plan a sunny picnic outing for the weekend, you can thank Carl-Gustav Rossby for his role in enabling the weather forecasts you're now able to check. I...
Aurora-Chasing Citizen Scientists Help Discover A New Feature of STEVE
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
"Often in physics, we build our understanding then test the extreme cases or test the cases in a different environment," Elizabeth MacDonald, a space scientist ...
Ripples in the pond of magnetic field reconnection
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
Through the MR the magnetic field energy may effectively be transferred into the kinetic and thermal energies of plasmas, resulting in many explosive plasma phe...
The role of the Sun in the spread of viral respiratory diseases
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
"Our model offers a simple answer to an important, yet still unsolved, scientific question", says Fabrizio Nicastro, INAF researcher and PI of the work. "Why do...
Solar cycle 25: the Sun wakes up
Oct 30, 2020 (ESA)
Experts on the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel recently announced that the Sun has officially entered a new cycle, its 25th since we've had enough data to relia...
Scientists develop detector for investigating the sun
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
As energy gets converted from one form to another in the active regions of the solar atmosphere, streams of particles - or cosmic rays - are born with energies ...
Studying the sun as a star to understand stellar flares and exoplanets
Oct 13, 2020 (SPX)
An international research team led by Shin Toriumi at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency added up the different types of emissions observed by a fleet of sa...
New look at sunspots is helping understand major flares and life around other stars
Oct 09, 2020 (SPX)
In a new study, scientists looked at sunspots - darkened patches on the Sun caused by its magnetic field - at low resolution as if they were trillions of miles ...
Solar Orbiter releases first data to the public
Oct 01, 2020 (ESA)
The instruments contributing data to the release are the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and the Magnetometer (M...
Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares
Sep 23, 2020 (SPX)
While the relationship between solar flares and sunquakes is still a mystery, new findings suggest that these "acoustic transients" - and the surface ripples th...
Nanojets shine light on heating of the Solar Corona
Sep 22, 2020 (SPX)
In pursuit of understanding why the Sun's atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface, and to help differentiate between a host of theories about what causes ...
Solar storm forecasts for Earth improved with help from the public
Sep 21, 2020 (SPX)
The team found forecasts were 20% more accurate, and uncertainty was reduced by 15%, when incorporating information about the size and shape of the CMEs in the ...
Citizen scientists help improve space weather forecasts
Sep 18, 2020 (UPI)
When researchers supplement computer models with citizen scientist-collected data on the size and shape of coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, forecasts were 20 mo...
Solar Cycle 25 is here. NASA, NOAA scientists explain what that means
Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group of experts co-sponsored by NASA and NOAA, announced that solar minimum occurred in December 2019, ma...
How scientists around the world track the Solar Cycle
Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)
Padilla boards the outdoor elevator. He clips himself to a safety harness, which is attached to the open-air cab, the same one used every day since the telescop...
Sunspot cycle is stabilizing, according to worldwide panel of experts
Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)
"We came to a consensus that the next solar cycle will be very similar to the last one" explains Dr. Gordon Petrie of the NSF's National Solar Observatory, who ...
The presence of resonating cavities above sunspots has been confirmed
Sep 10, 2020 (SPX)
From the end of the 1960's the presence of oscillations in the atmospheres of these spots has been known, and interpreted as evidence for magnetic waves. These ...
NASA awards SwRI contract to develop mission to image the Sun's poles
Sep 03, 2020 (SPX)
Dr. Don Hassler, a program director at SwRI, is the principal investigator for Solaris. This proposed solar polar Medium-Class Explorers (MIDEX) mission is desi...
Solar storm forecasting gets boost with $5M grant
Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)
These torrents of charged particles and electromagnetic fields from the Sun can damage power lines and satellites, and even astronauts. The National Science Fou...
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