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NASA retires prolific solar observatory after 16 years
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
Now, many years after launching on Feb. 5, 2002, the RHESSI - short for Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager - mission has ended; Krucker, and m...
Auroras Unlock the Physics of Energetic Processes in Space
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Auroras are an incredible light show caused by electrically charged particles in near-Earth space spiraling down Earth's magnetic field and colliding with gases...
Scientists map magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotail
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
The new observations, which also revealed intense electron jets associated with the regions where magnetic reconnection occurs, were outlined in a paper publish...
Windy with a chance of magnetic storms - space weather science with cluster
Nov 12, 2018 (ESA)
Despite appearances, the space surrounding our planet is far from empty. The Earth is surrounded by various layers of atmosphere, is constantly bathed in a flow...
Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
"Parker Solar Probe was designed to take care of itself and its precious payload during this close approach, with no control from us on Earth - and now we know ...
ESA rocks space weather
Nov 06, 2018 (ESA)
It's difficult to comprehend the size and sheer power of our Sun - a churning ball of hot gas 4.6 billion years old and 1.3 million times larger than Earth - th...
A stellar achievement: Magnetized space winds in the laboratory
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
Our own sun produces such a stellar wind called the solar wind which blows plasma out into the solar system at speeds of millions of miles per hour. This solar ...
Borexino sheds light on solar neutrinos
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
The scientists involved, including physicists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), have now published a general analysis of the data they have collat...
Magnetic pumping pushes plasma particles to high energies
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
Satellite observations, however, show this is not the case - the solar wind cools as it streams out, but stays hotter than expected. There must be some addition...
Parker Solar Probe breaks record, becomes closest spacecraft to Sun
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
The previous record for closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976. As the Parker Solar Probe mission progresses, t...
Parker Solar Probe looks back at home
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
The image was captured by the WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument, which is the only imaging instrument on board Parker Solar Probe. During sci...
First snapshot of complete spectrum of solar neutrinos
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
"Neutrinos emitted by this chain represent a unique tool for solar and neutrino physics," they explain. Their new paper in Nature reports on "the first complete...
Scientist explores a better way to predict space weather
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
The science of statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of understanding the thermodynamic behavior of phenomena with a large number of particles, such as ga...
Grant for solar physics aims to understand the Sun in its entirety
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
It is funded through a prestigious Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), awarded to a team of four European principal investigators from the M...
Students help scientist ID the sonic signatures of solar storms
Oct 20, 2018 (UPI)
Earth's magnetic field features a near-constant cacophony of low-frequency sound waves -- too low-pitched to be discernible to the human ear. But by speeding up...
School students identify sounds caused by solar storm
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, by a group of year 12 pupils from Eltham Hill School in south east London, have now been published in the scientific journal Space Weather. The pr...
A break from the buzz: bees go silent during total solar eclipse
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
In an unprecedented study of a solar eclipse's influence on bee behavior, researchers at the University of Missouri organized a cadre of citizen scientists and ...
Bees stop buzzing during a total solar eclipse
Oct 11, 2018 (UPI)
A citizen science project led by researchers at the University of Missouri found bees stopped flying as the sun disappeared behind the moon. The findings, publi...
Parker Solar Probe Changed the Game Before it Even Launched
Oct 05, 2018 (SPX)
Performed six more times over the course of the seven-year mission, these gravity assists will eventually bring Parker Solar Probe's closest approach to a recor...
Illuminating First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
"All instruments returned data that not only serves for calibration, but also captures glimpses of what we expect them to measure near the Sun to solve the myst...
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