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Spacecraft to speed through Sun's atmosphere and snag solar wind
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
One of these mysteries has to do with high-speed solar particles that zip toward Earth at close to the speed of light. Scientists know the particles originate i...
Ready for Its Day in the Sun: The SWEAP Investigation
Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)
To revolutionize our understanding of our most important and life-sustaining star, scientists and engineers have built a suite of instruments aboard the Parker ...
Parker Solar Probe could revolutionize understanding of the sun
Aug 06, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists expect the spacecraft's record trip, scheduled for Aug. 11, to offer profound insights into the nature of the sun's atmosphere, called the corona and...
Solar flares disrupted radio communications during September 2017 Atlantic hurricanes
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
On September 6, three hurricanes advanced in a menacing line across the Atlantic Ocean. Category 5 Hurricane Irma ravaged Barbuda in the Caribbean's Leeward Isl...
Parker Solar Probe and the birth of the solar wind
Jul 31, 2018 (SPX)
Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit temperatures, NASA's Parker Solar Probe - named after Eugene Parker, the University of Chicago physicist who first pred...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the curious case of the hot corona
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
Temperatures in the corona - the tenuous, outermost layer of the solar atmosphere - spike upwards of 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, while just 1,000 miles below,...
'Blood moon' dazzles skygazers in century's longest eclipse
Jul 28, 2018 (AFP)
As Earth's constant companion slowly sailed across the skies, crowds gathered around the world to catch a glimpse of the rare phenomenon. Beside Lake Magadi, 10...
Red planet and 'blood moon' pair up to dazzle skygazers
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
Viewers will need no protective eye gear to observe the spectacle -- unlike when watching solar eclipse. "All you have to do is... go outside!" the Royal Astron...
Rare Red Moon and Mars in Evening Sky on 27 July
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Mars, the Earth, and the Sun will be roughly lined up on 27 July. Mars is on the opposite side of the Earth to the Sun, and hence the alignment is known as oppo...
NASA prepares to launch Parker Solar Probe, a mission to touch the Sun
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
On July 20, 2018, Nicky Fox, Parker Solar Probe's project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, and Alex Young, ass...
High-Fidelity Images of Sun's Atmosphere Show Structured, Dynamic Corona
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The Sun's outer corona is the source of the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that flow outward from the Sun in all directions. Measured near Earth, t...
Discovering Structure in the Outer Corona
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
Suffice it to say that getting a better look at things produces major scientific advances. In a paper published on July 18 in The Astrophysical Journal, a team ...
How does the sun's rotational cycle influence lightning activity on earth?
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The research was published in the Annales Geophysicae, the open access peer-reviewed solar-terrestrial and planetary sciences journal of the European Geoscience...
Plasma Jets Foretell Unequal Activity of the Sun's Two Hemispheres
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
However, a complete understanding of all aspects of the sunspot activity cycle remains elusive. One of its curious features is the long observed lopsided activi...
This Summer's Solar Eclipses from the Ends of the Earth
Jul 09, 2018 (SPX)
Prof. Jay Pasachoff, Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses, will attempt to view both, weather permitting. Since part of the...
Cutting-Edge Heat Shield Installed on NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
A mission 60 years in the making, Parker Solar Probe will make a historic journey to the Sun's corona, a region of the solar atmosphere. With the help of its re...
Big Bear Solar Observatory' Expands View of the Sun
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
The telescope, SOLIS (Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun), collects images from three separate instruments over years and even decades, rather...
Sounding rocket takes a second look at the sun
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
"Since its launch in 2010, EVE's sensitivity has degraded by about 70 percent at some wavelengths," Woods said. When your job is to measure subtle variability i...
Revised launch date targeted for Parker Solar Probe
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
Originally scheduled to launch on July 31, additional time is needed to accommodate further software testing of spacecraft systems. The Parker Solar Probe will ...
The true power of the solar wind
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
New results of the TU Wien now show that previous models of this process are incomplete. The effects of solar wind bombardment are in some cases much more drast...
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