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New mission will take 1st peek at Sun's poles
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7, 202...
Flying solo
Jan 26, 2020 (ESA)
At its closest, Solar Orbiter will come within about 42 million km of the Sun: closer than the scorched planet Mercury, just over a quarter of the average dista...
NASA sounding rocket observing nitric oxide in polar night
Jan 22, 2020 (SPX)
However, they also contribute to a process that has an adverse impact on the Earth's ozone as nitric oxide is created during the auroral light show. To better u...
Warming up for the Sun
Jan 22, 2020 (ESA)
After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, which has seen the control team play out a range of scenarios where something goes wrong, mission control is...
NJIT scientists measure the evolving energy of a solar flare's explosive first minutes
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
In research published in the journal Science, the solar scientists who recorded those images have pinpointed for the first time ever exactly when and where the ...
Scientists pinpoint release of energy that powered series of solar flares
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
The solar flares were originally recorded in 2017 by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array, EOVSA, a radio telescope operated by the New Jersey Institute of Tec...
Florida Tech Awarded NASA Grant to Improve Solar Radiation Forecasting
Jan 06, 2020 (SPX)
Whether from solar flares, solar wind, corona mass ejections or other phenomena, radiation from solar energy particles can affect astronauts working in space, s...
SDO sees new kind of magnetic explosion on sun
Dec 18, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists have previously seen the explosive snap and realignment of tangled magnetic field lines on the Sun - a process known as magnetic reconnection - but n...
Revealing the physics of the Sun with Parker Solar Probe
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
Research from these teams hints at the processes behind both the Sun's continual outflow of material - the solar wind - and more infrequent solar storms that ca...
NRL, NASA combine to produce Solar imagery with unprecedented clarity
Dec 06, 2019 (SPX)
NRL's Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR, the only imaging instrument aboard the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, is now 84 percent of the way t...
First NASA Parker Solar Probe results reveal surprising details about our Sun
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
The information Parker has uncovered about how the Sun constantly ejects material and energy will help scientists rewrite the models they use to understand and ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe sheds new light on the Sun
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
These findings reveal new information about the behavior of the material and particles that speed away from the Sun, bringing scientists closer to answering fun...
Closest-ever approach to the sun gives new insights into the solar wind
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
NASA's Parker Solar Probe was launched in August 2018. Its first results are published in a series of four papers in Nature, with Imperial College London scient...
Parker Solar Probe: 'We're missing something fundamental about the sun'
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
The U-M findings, part of the first wave of results from the spacecraft that launched in August 2018, provide important insights into two fundamental questions ...
Sun's close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
The new findings, which help us understand the sun's activity and ultimately could provide an early warning for solar storms, come from one of the four instrume...
Parker Solar Probe traces solar wind to its source on sun's surface: coronal holes
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
Now, that data has allowed solar physicists to map the source of a major component of the solar wind that continually peppers Earth's atmosphere, while revealin...
Detecting solar flares, more in real time
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
"Being able to process solar data in real time is important because flares erupting on the Sun impact Earth over the course of minutes. These techniques provide...
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
"Previously, only the Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 missions have explored the outer solar system and outer heliosphere, but now New Horizons is doing t...
Scientist leads international team to crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun's magnetic waves
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
For more than 60 years observations of the Sun have shown that as the magnetic waves leave the interior of the Sun they grow in strength but until now there has...
Steve over the picket fence
Nov 28, 2019 (ESA)
Steve was first spotted by citizen scientists who posted photos of the unusual purple streaks of light in the Aurora Chasers Facebook group. Sometimes Steve was...
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