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The sun's core makes a complete rotation in one week
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
Now, researchers working together with a team at the Laboratoire Lagrange (CNRS/Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur/Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis) have determined...
New clue to solving the mystery of the sun's hot atmosphere
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Communications and funded by the NASA Hinode program, shows that an increase in magnetic activity goes hand in hand with an incre...
Two weeks in the life of a sunspot
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
With their complex magnetic fields, sunspots are often the source of interesting solar activity: During its 13-day trip across the face of the Sun, the active r...
Our solar system's 'shocking' origin story
Aug 04, 2017 (SPX)
New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss offers fresh evidence supporting this theory, modeling the Solar System's formation beyond the initial cloud collapse and int...
Joint NASA-Brazil SPORT CubeSat mission will aid better space weather prediction
Aug 04, 2017 (SPX)
Two phenomena in the ionosphere - equatorial plasma bubbles and scintillation - have impacted radio communication systems, satellite technologies and global pos...
Gravity waves detected in Sun's interior reveal rapidly rotating core
Aug 02, 2017 (ESA)
Just as seismology reveals Earth's interior structure by the way in which waves generated by earthquakes travel through it, solar physicists use 'helioseismolog...
NASA Selects Proposals to Study Sun, Space Environment
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
The broad scope of the investigations illustrates the many vital and specialized research areas that must be explored simultaneously in the area of heliophysics...
National Solar Observatory Predicts Shape Of Solar Corona For August Eclipse
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
If you have the good fortune to be along the path of totality, stretching from Oregon to South Carolina, you will get to witness one of the most awe-inspiring v...
Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse from NASA's WB-57F Jets
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
Amir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his team will use two of NASA's WB-57F research jets to chase the darkness across Ameri...
SwRI team uses airborne telescopes to study Sun and Mercury during total solar eclipse
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
Total solar eclipses are unique opportunities for scientists to study the hot atmosphere above the Sun's visible surface. The faint light from the corona is usu...
Solar Minimum is Coming
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
But astronomers have long known that this is not true. The sun does change. Properly-filtered telescopes reveal a fiery disk often speckled with dark sunspots. ...
NASA mission surfs through waves in space to understand space weather
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
The new study looked at a newly identified population of hiss waves at a lower frequency than usually studied. These low-frequency hiss waves are particularly g...
The moon is front and center during a total solar eclipse
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
"A total eclipse is a dance with three partners: the moon, the sun and Earth," said Richard Vondrak, a lunar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ...
NASA looks to solar eclipse to help understand Earth's energy system
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
On Aug. 21, 2017, scientists are looking to this year's total solar eclipse passing across America to improve our modelling capabilities of Earth's energy. Guoy...
Solar eclipse offers millions a chance at citizen science
Jul 21, 2017 (AFP)
The entire country will fall into shadow as the "Great American Eclipse" passes, though the darkest path, or "totality," will be contained in a 70-mile (113-kil...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory sees sunspot turn toward Earth
Jul 11, 2017 (UPI)
Sunsports are patches on the surface of the sun that appear darker than their surroundings due to the loss of surface tension caused by magnetic flux, an intens...
Improved representation of solar variability in climate models
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
These questions have been in the focus of climate research for a long time. In order to answer these questions as precisely as possible, it is required to know ...
Scientists uncover origins of the Sun's swirling spicules
Jul 06, 2017 (SPX)
This work relied upon high-cadence observations from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, and the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope in La Palma,...
Musical Sun Reduces Range of Magnetic Activity
Jul 06, 2017 (SPX)
Prof. Yvonne Elsworth, of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, explains: "The Sun is very much like a musical instrument except ...
Shining a Light on Solar Energetic Particles and Jets
Jul 04, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists study the Sun with a variety of techniques, including looking at the so-called H-alpha line in the solar spectrum, associated with hydrogen gas that ...
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