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Mount Sinai researchers use breakthrough technology to understand eclipse eye damage
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
Adaptive optics is a sophisticated technology that allows clinicians to examine microscopic structures of the eye in living patients with extreme detail in real...
CU Boulder solar instruments, experiments headed for space
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The instrument suite is called the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) and was designed and built by CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and...
Massive Primordial Galaxies Found in 'Halo' of Dark Matter
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The two galaxies, first discovered by the South Pole Telescope at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, were massive and star-filled at a time ...
New NASA instrument continues measuring solar energy input to Earth
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
For nearly 40 years, NASA has been measuring how much sunshine powers our home planet. This December, NASA is launching an instrument to the International Space...
All missions on board for NASA heliophysics research
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a pa...
Solar minimum surprisingly constant
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
In Japan, continuous four-frequency solar microwave observations (1, 2, 3.75 and 9.4 GHz) began in 1957 at the Toyokawa Branch of the Research Institute of Atmo...
NASA detects solar flare pulses at Sun and Earth
Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)
By using multiple observatories, two recent studies show how solar flares exhibit pulses or oscillations in the amount of energy being sent out. Such research p...
FIREBIRD II and NASA mission locate whistling space electrons' origins
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
Yet for decades, no one has known exactly what is responsible for hurling these energetic electrons on their way. Recently, two spacecraft found themselves at j...
Proposed NASA mission would investigate where space weather begins
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
The proposed mission, Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI, was one of five proposals that received Phase-A funding under NASA's Small Explorer Program....
View the 2019 solar eclipse from La Silla Observatory
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
Only 700 tickets will be available in the ESOshop from 22 November 2017 on a first-come, first-served basis. The tickets will be 200 euros each, and will includ...
Parker Solar Probe Comes to NASA Goddard for Testing
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
Before arriving at Goddard, Parker Solar Probe was at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where it was designed and bui...
UK space science mission SMILE gets first round of funding
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
The 3 million pounds will support academics working on SMILE (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer), a European Space Agency (ESA) science miss...
NASA Investigates Invisible Magnetic Bubbles in Outer Solar System
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
But not all magnetospheres are created equal: Venus and Mars do not have magnetospheres at all, while the other planets - and one moon - have ones that are surp...
NASA sounding rocket instrument spots signatures of long-sought small solar flares
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
FOXSI detected a type of light called hard X-rays - whose wavelengths are much shorter than the light humans can see - which is a signature of extremely hot sol...
How scientists used NASA data to predict the corona of the Aug. 21 Total Solar Eclipse
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
Predictive Science, Inc., San Diego, Calif. - a private computational physics research company supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Air Fo...
On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
For the first time, a scientific team has revealed their nature by combining simulations and images taken with the NASA's IRIS spectrograph and the Swedish Sola...
Scientists propose space shield to protect Earth from solar storms
Oct 05, 2017 (UPI)
Much attention is paid to the threat of comets and asteroids. In the past, violent collisions have triggered mass extinctions. Solar storms -- intense waves of ...
A RAVAN in the sun
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
RAVAN began collecting data from Earth's orbit on Jan. 25, 2017, and the technology demonstration was declared a success in early August. But the solar eclipse ...
Scientists model magnetic storm that inspired red aurora over Kyoto
Oct 03, 2017 (UPI)
Recently, scientists at Tokyo's National Institute of Japanese Literature and National Institute for Polar Research got the opportunity to analyze an ancient pa...
Parker Solar Probe Gets Its Revolutionary Heat Shield
Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)
The revolutionary heat shield that will protect the first spacecraft to fly directly into the Sun's atmosphere was installed for the first time on Sept. 21. Thi...
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