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Solar Orbiter to leave factory for testing
Sep 18, 2018 (SPX)
The UK is at the heart of this European Space Agency (ESA) mission to uncover the secrets of our planet's star. Solar Orbiter will provide close-up views of the...
NASA-funded Rocket to View Sun with X-Ray Vision
Sep 07, 2018 (SPX)
These small but intense eruptions are born when magnetic field lines in the Sun's atmosphere tangle up and stretch until they break like a rubber band. The ener...
Solar eruptions may not have slinky-like shapes after all
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
Revisiting some older data, the researchers discovered new information about the shape of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) - large-scale eruptions of plasma and ma...
European researchers develop a new technique to forecast geomagnetic storms
Aug 30, 2018 (SPX)
The resulting flux of charged particles travels millions of miles from the sun to the Earth. When they arrive here, the particles wreak havoc on the Earth's mag...
How scientists predicted corona's appearance during total solar eclipse
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
But the wait was uniquely nerve-wracking for a group of scientists at Predictive Science Inc., a private research company in San Diego: They had just published ...
Discovering trailing components of a coronal mass ejection
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
Jensen is lead author of "Plasma Interactions with the Space Environment in the Acceleration Region: Indications of CME-trailing Reconnection Regions" that appe...
JPL roles in NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Aug 28, 2018 (JPL)
One instrument, called the Energetic Particle Instrument-Hi (EPI-Hi), will investigate the mysteries of high-speed solar particles that hurtle toward Earth at c...
New kind of aurora is not an aurora at all
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Amateur photographers had captured the new phenomenon, called STEVE, on film for decades. But the scientific community only got wind of STEVE in 2016. When scie...
Crystalline silica in meteorite brings scientists closer to understanding solar evolution
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
Though previous infrared spectroscopic observations have suggested the existence of silica in young and newly formed T Tauri stars as well as in asymptotic gian...
China's radio heliograph may cooperate with NASA's spacecraft in solar observation: scientist
Aug 20, 2018 (XNA)
The Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph (CSRH), built at Ming'antu, a radio quiet region in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, consists of 100 antenna...
Parker Solar Probe marks first mission milestones on voyage to Sun
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
On Aug. 13, the high-gain antenna, which Parker Solar Probe uses to communicate high-rate science data to Earth, was released from locks which held it stable du...
Chinese scientists intend to chase solar eclipse in space
Aug 20, 2018 (XNA)
So Chinese scientists have put forward a novel idea to view a total solar eclipse in space by using the earth to cover the sun, so they might have a longer and ...
Historic space weather could clarify what's next
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Sandra Chapman, from Warwick's Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, led a project which charted the space weather in previous solar cycles acros...
NASA launches Parker Solar Probe in first mission to 'touch Sun'
Aug 12, 2018 (AFP)
The launch of the car-sized probe aboard a massive Delta IV-Heavy rocket lit the night sky at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 3:31 am (0731 GMT). The unmanned spacec...
NASA postpones for 24 hours launch of historic spaceship to Sun
Aug 11, 2018 (AFP)
The reason for the delay was not immediately clear, but was called for after a gaseous helium alarm was sounded in the last moments before liftoff, officials sa...
Satellite measurements of the Earth's magnetosphere promise better space weather forecasts
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The trapped particles bounce back and forth between the North and South poles in complex, ever-changing patterns that are also influenced by equally intricate a...
French research set to take off for the Sun
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
A little closer to the stars, inside the plasma corona surrounding the Sun. That's the goal of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, in an attempt to solve one of ...
Parker Solar Probe: humanity's first visit to a star
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Parker Solar Probe will travel through the Sun's atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions - ...
Space probe to plunge into fiery solar corona
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Outfitted with instruments designed and built at the University of California, Berkeley, the Parker Solar Probe will achieve a goal that space scientists have d...
Touching the Sun to protect the Earth
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
"The Parker Solar Probe will help us do a much better job of predicting when a disturbance in the solar wind could hit Earth," Kasper said. Kasper describes the...
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