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Europe's largest Solar Telescope GREGOR unveils magnetic details of the Sun
Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)
"This was a very exciting, but also extremely challenging project. In only one year we completely redesigned the optics, mechanics, and electronics to achieve t...
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...
Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time
Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)
The Sun is a magnetized star, and its magnetic field plays a critical role in shaping the solar atmosphere. The 11-year solar cycle, the spectacular solar erupt...
Research team develops the first physics-based method for predicting large solar flares
Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)
The research team led by Professor Kanya Kusano (Director of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University) recently succeeded in deve...
Aurora mysteries unlocked with NASA's THEMIS mission
Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)
Previously, scientists weren't sure if auroral beads are somehow connected to other auroral displays as a phenomenon in space that precedes substorms, or if the...
A method has been developed to study extreme space weather events
Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)
The results can help to better understand and predict the most extreme space weather events and their potential to cause strong geomagnetic storms that directly...
The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
For a long time, researchers have believed that there is not much of interest going on in the Sun during the passive period, therefore not worth studying. Now t...
Uncovering the shape of the Solar System
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
All the planets of our solar system are encased in a magnetic bubble, carved out in space by the Sun's constantly outflowing material, the solar wind. Outside t...
Breakthrough method for predicting solar storms
Jul 30, 2020 (SPX)
"We are becoming increasingly dependent on space-based systems that are sensitive to space weather. Earth-based networks and the electrical grid can be severely...
Alaskan seismometers record the northern lights
Jul 30, 2020 (SPX)
The same perturbations of the Earth's magnetic field that lit up the sky for Lojewski's camera were also captured by seismometers on the ground, a team of resea...
New studies reveal inside of central energy release region in solar eruption
Jul 29, 2020 (SPX)
The related research results were published in the journal Nature Astronomy on July 27, 2020. Solar eruption is the most violent energy release process in the s...
Unprecedented look into the 'central engine' powering a solar flare
Jul 28, 2020 (SPX)
The new findings, based on EOVSA's observations of the event at microwave wavelengths, offer the first measurements characterizing the magnetic fields and parti...
Contract awarded to develop solar wind plasma sensor
Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)
SWiPS will measure the properties of solar wind ions originating from the Sun, including the very fast ions associated with coronal mass ejections that interact...
Closest ever pictures of the sun reveal 'campfires' near surface
Jul 16, 2020 (UPI)
The pictures, taken during ESA/NASA's Solar Orbitor mission to study earth's closest star, the Sun, are now publicly available, NASA said in a statement Thursda...
NASA awards Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 Spacecraft contract
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
This is a hybrid firm-fixed price, time and materials contract in the amount of approximately $32.9 million. The base contract is for spacecraft development in ...
Solar Orbiter ready for science despite COVID-19 setbacks
Jun 30, 2020 (ESA)
When Solar Obiter blasted into space on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 10 February, the teams behind the euro 1.5 billion mission did not an...
Ball Aerospace to build NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 spacecraft
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order in the amount of $96.9 million issued under the Rapid III Spacecraft Catalog. The period of performance runs now throu...
Motions in the Sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycle
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
During solar minimum, the Sun calms down considerably. A striking regularity appears in the so-called butterfly diagram, which describes the position of sunspot...
Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA's SDO
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. With a triad of instrument...
China's large solar telescope ready for space weather forecasts
Jun 24, 2020 (XNA)
The Chinese Large Solar Telescope (CLST), with a 1.8-meter aperture, was developed by the Institute of Optics and Electronics under the auspices of the Chinese ...
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