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China completes new large solar telescope
Mar 25, 2020 (XNA)
The Chinese Large Solar Telescope (CLST), with a 1.8-meter aperture, was developed by the academy's Institute of Optics and Electronics. It caught the first bat...
Solar system acquired current configuration not long after its formation
Mar 24, 2020 (SPX)
Nor is it without controversies. Until recently the Solar System was thought to have acquired its present features as a result of a period of turbulence that oc...
Solar energy tracker powers down after 17 years
Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)
The SORCE team turned off the spacecraft on February 25, 2020, concluding 17 years of measuring the amount, spectrum and fluctuations of solar energy entering E...
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere
Mar 20, 2020 (SPX)
In 2015, using a new computer model and data from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, Merav Opher, professor of astronomy and researcher at Boston University's Center for...
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun
Feb 25, 2020 (SPX)
The work, led by Yuping Huang, director of the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering at Stevens, addresses a decades old problem with LIDAR, which fires la...
First Solar Orbiter instrument sends measurements
Feb 18, 2020 (ESA)
Solar Orbiter, ESA's new Sun-exploring spacecraft, launched on Monday 10 February. It carries ten scientific instruments, four of which measure properties of th...
Solar wind samples suggest new physics of massive solar ejections
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Coronal mass ejections (CME) are giant plasma bursts that erupt from the sun, heading out into the solar system at speeds as fast as 2 million miles per hour. L...
ESA's next Sun mission will be shadow-casting pair
Feb 11, 2020 (ESA)
Aiming for launch in mid-2022, Proba-3 comprises two small metre-scale satellites to be placed together in Earth orbit. They will line up to cast a precise shad...
Solar Orbiter launches on mission to reveal Sun's secrets
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
The mission, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, successfully blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 11:03...
Solar Orbiter set to launch in mission to reveal Sun's secrets
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
The mission, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, is set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 11:03 pm (...
Orbiter set to launch in mission to reveal Sun's secrets
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
The mission, due to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center at 11:03 pm (0403 GMT Monday), is set to last up to nine years. Scientists say the craft, developed ...
Sun explorer spacecraft set for launch
Feb 07, 2020 (SPX)
The mission will take the most detailed images ever of the Sun and provide crucial information about how our star's volatile activity affects its atmosphere. Th...
How ESA-NASA's Solar Orbiter beats the heat
Feb 05, 2020 (SPX)
Seeking a view of the Sun's north and south poles, Solar Orbiter will journey out of the ecliptic plane - the belt of space, roughly in line with the Sun's equa...
Progress made toward priorities of Heliophysics Decadal Survey
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
The decadal survey, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society, recommended research organized around key scientific goals, including establ...
Particles are smoking gun for solar wind interactions beyond Earth orbit
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
"Our main goal is to determine the acceleration mechanisms that create and transport dangerous high-energy particles from the solar atmosphere into the solar sy...
RUAG Space: Key products for Sun Explorer Solar Orbiter
Jan 31, 2020 (SPX)
The Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA/NASA collaboration and is scheduled for launch for 7th/8th February on a ULA Atlas V launch vehicle. The satellite will get ver...
First images of Sun released from World's largest solar telescope
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists operating the Inouye Solar Telescope said the unprecedented detail demonstrates the sheer power of the ground-based telescope to map the magnetic fie...
Space super-storm likelihood estimated from longest period of magnetic field observations
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
By analysing magnetic field records at opposite ends of the Earth (UK and Australia), scientists have been able to detect super-storms going back over the last ...
NSF's newest solar telescope produces first images, most detailed images of the sun
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
Activity on the sun, known as space weather, can affect systems on Earth. Magnetic eruptions on the sun can impact air travel, disrupt satellite communications ...
Citizen scientists identify new kind of northern lights
Jan 29, 2020 (UPI)
While working on a guide book intended for northern lights hobbyists, Minna Palmroth, professor of computational space physics at the University of Helsinki, re...
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