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Scientists present new ionosphere images and science
Nov 28, 2019 (ESA)
The collection of images presented include the first images from NASA's ICON, new science results from NASA's GOLD, and observations of a fleeting, never-before...
A model will help to understand the solar dynamics
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
Plasma b is an important quantity to investigate the interchanging roles of plasma and magnetic pressure in the solar atmosphere. It relates to both the solar m...
Earth's magnetic song recorded for first time during solar storm
Nov 19, 2019 (ESA)
The song comes from waves that are generated in the Earth's magnetic field by the collision of the storm. The storm itself is the eruption of electrically charg...
New observations help explain why sun's upper atmosphere is hotter than its surface
Nov 18, 2019 (UPI)
One of them is the Big Bear Solar Observatory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and new observations by the observatory have offered fresh insights int...
Images from solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mystery
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
With new images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory, the researchers have revealed in groundbreaking, granular detail what appears to be a likely mechanism -...
SwRI demonstrates balloon-based solar observatory
Nov 08, 2019 (SPX)
"SSIPP is a novel, low-cost observatory prototype," said SwRI's Dr. Craig DeForest, principal investigator of the NASA Flight Opportunities mission. "We are wor...
A decade probing the Sun
Nov 05, 2019 (ESA)
On 2 November, 2009, Proba2 began its journey on board a Rockot launcher from the Russian launch base, Plesetsk, and was inserted into a Sun-synchronous orbit a...
An overlooked piece of the solar dynamo puzzle
Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)
Just like an enormous dynamo, the sun's magnetic field is generated by electric currents. In order to better understand this self-reinforcing mechanism, researc...
Solar Orbiter ready to depart Europe
Oct 19, 2019 (ESA)
The spacecraft was on display today for the final time in Europe, at the IABG test centre near Munich, Germany. It was built at Airbus Stevenage, UK, and has sp...
Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
Humans have been looking to the skies for as long as we have been around. Some of the observations made by ancient Assyrian and Babylonian astrologers more than...
UK teams complete space weather mission study ahead of selection decision in November
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
Three out of four teams developing the platforms and instruments to support the ESA mission are led by UK organisations, with a fourth from Germany. This has al...
Sun science has a bright future on the Moon
Oct 04, 2019 (SPX)
Heliophysicists - scientists who study the Sun and its influence on Earth - will also be sending up their own NASA missions as part of Artemis. Their goal is to...
Lab uses deep learning to monitor the Sun's ultraviolet emission
Oct 03, 2019 (SPX)
These disruptions can impact spacecraft, satellites and even systems here on Earth, including GPS navigation, radio communications and the power grid. Deep lear...
Are solar eruptions messy, or neat?
Sep 27, 2019 (SPX)
Seen from Earth, solar flares put on an elegant show. But these dancing plasma ribbons are the shrapnel of violent explosions. The energetic process that fuels ...
UK to accelerate research into forecasting space weather
Sep 27, 2019 (SPX)
Space weather, such as flares or winds from the Sun's surface or geomagnetic storms, can damage our satellites and cause power disruptions, issues to air transp...
PUNCH mission to image Sun's outer corona enters Phase B
Sep 27, 2019 (SPX)
NASA selected SwRI in June 2019 to lead the PUNCH mission. PUNCH consists of four microsatellites the size of suitcases that will orbit the Earth in formation t...
New standard of reference for assessing solar forecast proposed
Sep 27, 2019 (SPX)
While day-ahead forecasts have become more accurate in recent years, the solar community lacks a unified verification procedure, and assessing how one forecast ...
Sandia experiments at temperature of sun offer solutions to solar model problems
Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)
The blockage effect, called opacity, is an element's natural resistance to energy passing through it, similar to an opaque window's resistance to the passage of...
It's not aurora, it's STEVE
Sep 06, 2019 (SPX)
STEVE is short for the Strong Thermal Emissions Velocity Enhancement, a celestial phenomenon auroral researchers, citizen-scientists and photography enthusiasts...
NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space Weather
Sep 04, 2019 (SPX)
The proposals examine what drives different parts of that system and ultimately could help us predict and mitigate its effects on spacecraft and astronauts, as ...
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