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ESA's space weather mission to be protected against stormy Sun
Mar 07, 2019 (ESA)
"This will be an operational rather than a scientific mission, meaning it has to keep on working because people will be depending on it," explains ESA space env...
Space weather kicks up a social storm
Mar 01, 2019 (ESA)
Throughout human history, spectacular auroral eruptions have given rise to fearful beliefs of mythological creatures, have driven folklore and have influenced c...
Cluster Spacecraft Reveal Insights into Earth's Natural Particle Accelerator
Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)
The Sun continuously ejects a stream of charged particles travelling at supersonic speeds from 300 to over 1,000 km/s. When this "solar wind" plasma reaches Ear...
NASA Selects Mission to Study Space Weather from Space Station
Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)
The new experiment will, for the first time, obtain global observations of an important driver of space weather in a dynamic region of Earth's upper atmosphere ...
LOFAR radio telescope reveals secrets of solar storms
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
The team showed that solar storms can accelerate particles simultaneously in several locations by combining data from the Low Frequency Array, LOFAR, with image...
Solar tadpole-like jets seen with IRIS add new clue to age-old mystery
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
For 150 years scientists have been trying to figure out why the wispy upper atmosphere of the Sun - the corona - is over 200 times hotter than the solar surface...
Spacecraft measurements reveal mechanism of solar wind heating
Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Communications and carried out with University of Arizona and the University of Iowa, shows that a process known as Landau dampin...
Scientists use spacecraft's measurements to study solar wind heating
Feb 14, 2019 (UPI)
Most of the visible matter in the universe exists in the form of plasma, an ionized state of matter. Understanding how energy is transferred to and from ionized...
Shedding light on the science of auroral breakups
Feb 11, 2019 (SPX)
Now, Japanese scientists have quantitatively confirmed how energetic this phenomenon can be. Using a combination of cutting-edge ground-based technology and new...
Evidence for a new fundamental constant of the sun
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
Their findings have been reported in the latest edition of the prominent journal, Nature Astronomy. After examining data gathered over a 10-year period, the tea...
All systems go as Parker Solar Probe begins second orbit of Sun
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
Parker Solar Probe entered full operational status (known as Phase E) on Jan. 1, with all systems online and operating as designed. The spacecraft has been deli...
Surprising Explanation for Differences in Southern and Northern Lights
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
However, in 2009, scientists discovered aurora can look differently around the north pole and the south pole, including having different shapes and occurring at...
Comprehensive Model Captures Life of a Solar Flare
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
The accomplishment, detailed in the journal Nature Astronomy, sets the stage for future solar models to realistically simulate the Sun's own weather as it unfol...
Lunar eclipse in the UK morning sky
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
A total lunar eclipse occurs when Earth passes exactly between the Sun and the Moon. The Sun is behind Earth, and the Moon moves into Earth's shadow. The Moon f...
Five things to know about January's total Lunar eclipse
Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)
Walter Freeman is an assistant teaching professor in the Physics Department at Syracuse University. Freeman answers five questions about the upcoming eclipse. F...
New findings reveal the behavior of turbulence in the exceptionally hot solar corona
Jan 02, 2019 (SPX)
The scientists found that formation of magnetic bubbles known as plasmoids in a conducting fluid like plasma - the hot, charged state of matter composed of free...
Research provides insights into Sun's past, future
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
"Scientists have been monitoring solar activity since Galileo made the first drawings in 1612 by counting sunspots and groups of sunspots," said SwRI's Dr. Andr...
Preparing for discovery with NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
On Dec. 12, 2018, four such researchers gathered at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C., to share what they hope to learn fro...
Prediction of Sun's Activity Over the Next Decade
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
The Sun's activity level changes, but predicting these changes has been challenging. Now a team of two scientists from the Center of Excellence in Space Science...
Auroras help scientists study energy instabilities in space
Nov 26, 2018 (UPI)
"An instability is a physical process whereby the energy output can essentially grow very quickly without limits," Colin Forsyth, physicist at the University Co...
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