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Solving the Sun's Super-Heating Mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
In roughly two years, the probe will be the first man-made craft to enter the zone surrounding the Sun where heating looks fundamentally different that what has...
The sun follows the rhythm of the planets
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
In principle, it is not unusual for the magnetic activity of a star like the Sun to undergo cyclic oscillation. And yet past models have been unable to adequate...
Centuries-old drawings lead to better understanding of fan-shaped auroras
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
The team published their results on May 17, 2019, in Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate. Red auroras are fan-shaped auroras characterized by light that ...
Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun's atmosphere
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
The scientists used large radio telescopes and ultraviolet cameras on a NASA spacecraft to better understand the exotic but poorly understood "fourth state of m...
NASA Scientist Receives Patent for Innovative Technique for Measuring Space Weather Phenomena
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Antti Pulkkinen, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his team have started implementing the idea. They've installed sc...
Strong Magnetic Storm May Cause Satellites to Deorbit - Russian Academy
May 15, 2019 (Sputnik)
"In accordance with the developed scale of magnetic storms, level three storms have a noticeable impact on technology, especially in space, including causing [s...
Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon STEVE
Apr 26, 2019 (SPX)
Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Typical auroras, the northern and southern lights, are usually seen as swirling green ri...
Indian Scientists Make Deepest Radio Images of the Sun
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
The Sun has some of the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Their possible impacts on Earth include electric supply blackouts, satellite damage, disru...
New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
A paper recently published in the journal Space Weather details how the model can accurately give a one-day warning prior to a space storm of ultra-high-speed e...
Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
"The solar wind impact at Jupiter is an extreme example of space weather," said James Sinclair of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who ...
NASA launches two rockets studying auroras
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
Two Black Brant XI-A sounding rockets were launched at 6:14 and 6:16 p.m. EDT on April 5 carrying scientific instruments for studying the energy exchange within...
Unexpected rain on Sun links two solar mysteries
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
"I probably looked through three or five years' worth of data," Mason estimated. Then, in October 2017, she stopped. She realized she had been looking at the wr...
And the Blobs Just Keep on Coming
Apr 05, 2019 (SPX)
Di Matteo was looking for long trains of massive blobs - like a lava lamp's otherworldly bubbles, but anywhere from 50 to 500 times the size of Earth - in the s...
Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms
Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)
In astrophysics, the "fourth state" of matter plays a crucial role. Apart from solid, liquid and gaseous states, there is also "plasma", which means an accumula...
Climate changes make some aspects of weather forecasting increasingly difficult
Mar 24, 2019 (SPX)
The study How Global Warming Changes the Difficulty of Synoptic Weather Forecasting by Sebastian Scher and Gabriele Messori at the Department of Meteorology, pu...
Sino-European joint space mission to send satellites in 2023
Mar 24, 2019 (XNA)
The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer is a comprehensive collaboration between the CAS and the European Space Agency (ESA). Satellites will be l...
Probability of catastrophic geomagnetic storm lower than estimated
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers, who published the study in the journal Scientific Reports (of the Nature group) in February, calculated the probability in the next decade of a...
Tied in knots: New insights into plasma behavior focus on twists and turns
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
Unfortunately for plasma physicists who study this phenomenon, the magnetic field lines often lack simple shapes that equations can easily model. Often they twi...
Researchers uncover additional evidence for massive solar storms
Mar 12, 2019 (SPX)
For the past 70 years, researchers have studied these solar storms by direct instrumental observations, which has led to an understanding of how they can pose a...
Discovering Bonus Science With NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft
Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)
For three weeks, MMS studied the solar wind - the stream of supersonic charged particles flung around the solar system by the Sun - to better understand what's ...
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