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Three NASA satellites recreate solar eruption in 3-D
Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)
Much the way ships form bow waves as they move through water, CMEs set off interplanetary shocks when they erupt from the Sun at extreme speeds, propelling a wa...
Public invited to come aboard NASA's first mission to touch the Sun
Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)
"This probe will journey to a region humanity has never explored before," said Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate...
Queen's scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the Sun
Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)
The Sun is the source of energy that sustains all life on Earth but much remains unknown about it. However, a group of researchers at Queen's have now unlocked ...
Pulsating aurora mysteries uncovered with help from THEMIS and ERG missions
Feb 21, 2018 (SPX)
Now, new research, using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms - or THEMIS - mission and Japan's Exploration of e...
Towards a better prediction of solar eruptions
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
It is the resistance of this cage to the attack of the rope that determines the power and type of the upcoming flare. This work has enabled the scientists to de...
HINODE captures record breaking solar magnetic field
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
The penumbra harbors an outward flow of gas along the horizontal threads. The darkness of the umbrae is generally correlated with the magnetic field strength. H...
Where no mission has gone before
Feb 12, 2018 (ESA)
But just as the Sun drives weather on Earth, solar activity is responsible for disturbances in our space environment, dubbed 'space weather'. Besides emitting a...
GOLD will revolutionize our understanding of space weather
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, is also NASA's first mission to fly as a hosted payload aboard a commercial satellite, and will reach i...
NASA's newly rediscovered IMAGE mission provided key aurora research
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
On March 25, 2000, NASA launched the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, mission. It was the first mission to use neutral atom, phot...
What's behind the most brilliant lights in the sky
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
"We're looking at the best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space," says Jan Egedal, a professor of physics and senior author of a study in Physical Revi...
Rare 'super blood blue moon' visible on Jan 31
Jan 28, 2018 (AFP)
The event is causing a buzz because it combines three unusual lunar events -- an extra big super moon, a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse. "It's an astronomi...
What scientists can learn about the Moon during the Jan. 31 eclipse
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
Three lunar events will come together in an unusual overlap that's being playfully called a super blue blood moon. The second full moon in January will take pla...
Magnetic coil springs accelerate particles on the Sun
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
In April and July 2014, the Sun emitted three jets of energetic particles into space, that were quite exceptional: the particle streams contained such high amou...
Sounding rockets study space x-ray emissions and create polar mesospheric cloud
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
Between January 15 - 31, 2018, scientists will launch four rockets to measure x-ray emissions from space and determine how large quantities of water could affec...
Eclipse megamovie projects seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos
Jan 08, 2018 (SPX)
The images have been put online at Zooniverse so that the public can scan and categorize them, a project dubbed Megamovie Maestros I. Initially, volunteers are ...
Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect
Jan 08, 2018 (SPX)
However, our understanding of the physics underlying the solar dynamo is far from complete. One example is the so-called Maunder Minimum, a period in the 17th c...
August eclipse left a wake in ionosphere, researchers reveal
Dec 27, 2017 (UPI)
The eclipse across North America was seen by millions of people, as well as by 2,000 positioning sensors installed across its path on Earth by researchers of MI...
Report Highlights Social and Economic Impacts of Space Weather
Dec 21, 2017 (SPX)
Space weather broadly refers to time-variable conditions in the near-Earth space environment including the sun, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and therm...
Eclipse 2017: Science from the Moon's Shadow
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
"This eclipse gave us an opportunity to cement the idea of the Sun-Earth connection," said Lika Guhathakurta, who headed up NASA's science efforts for the Aug. ...
Space weather, EarthScope, and protecting the national electrical grid
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
"A big induced current in power-transmission lines that takes down high-voltage transformers would be a major disaster," Schultz said. "EarthScope is materially...
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