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Eclipse Expectations Excite Escapades for Enlightenment
Jun 26, 2017 (SPX)
Hours and hours have been spent with this Nasa Total Solar Eclipse Interactive Map. Of course, Expedia played an important role in ruling out locations. Idaho? ...
Study suggests solar eruptions hit planet Earth like a sneeze
Jun 24, 2017 (UPI)
Until now, astronomers looked at cloud-like structures of coronal mass ejections as single entities. The latest research -- detailed in the journal Scientific R...
NASA Prepares for Aug. 21 Total Solar Eclipse with Live Coverage, Safety Information
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
Viewers around the world will be provided a wealth of images captured before, during, and after the eclipse by 11 spacecraft, at least three NASA aircraft, more...
Megamovie Project debuts simulator for August 21 total Solar Eclipse
Jun 22, 2017 (SPX)
You can enter the ZIP code or name of your city or town and see an animation of how the Sun will move across the sky over a three-hour period - sped up 1,000 or...
Rare US total solar eclipse excites Americans coast-to-coast
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
During the eclipse on August 21 -- the first of its kind since 1918 -- the moon will pass between the sun and Earth, casting a dark shadow and making visible th...
NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
In 1958, Parker - then a young professor at the university's Enrico Fermi Institute - published an article in the Astrophysical Journal called "Dynamics of the ...
A real scorcher: NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere
May 31, 2017 (AFP)
After liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2018, the Parker Solar Probe will become the first to fly directly into the sun's atmosphere, known a...
NASA's SDO sees partial eclipse in space
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
While the moon's edge appears smooth in these images, it's actually quite uneven. The surface of the moon is rugged, sprinkled with craters, valleys and mountai...
CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
By looking at the sun with this new technique, heliophysicists - who study how our dynamic sun drives change in the very physics of space around Earth and other...
UV Spectropolarimetry Opens a New Window for Solar Physics Research
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
The data show that the structures of the solar chromosphere and transition region are more complicated than expected. Now that ultraviolet spectropolarimetry, t...
Space weather events linked to human activity
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
From 1958 to 1962, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. ran high-altitude tests with exotic code names like Starfish, Argus and Teak. The tests have long since ended, and the ...
First direct exploration of magnetic fields in the upper solar atmosphere
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The data show that the structures of the solar chromosphere and transition region are more complicated than expected. Now that ultraviolet spectropolarimetry, t...
UNH researcher identifies key differences in solar wind models
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Research done at the University of New Hampshire has found that when choosing the right model to describe the solar wind, using the one that takes longer to cal...
Space weather model simulates solar storms from nowhere
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
But another kind of storm has puzzled scientists for its lack of typical warning signs: They seem to come from nowhere, and scientists call them stealth CMEs. N...
NASA-funded sounding rocket will take 1,500 images of sun in 5 minutes
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
Several missions continuously study the sun - such as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO - bu...
RAISE Spectrograph to Help Answer Some of the Mysteries of the Sun
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
The Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment (RAISE), designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), carries an ultraviolet imaging spectro...
Sun's Eruptions Might All Have Same Trigger
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
They looked at the mechanism behind coronal jets - relatively small bursts of plasma (hot gas) from the Sun - and much larger-scale coronal mass ejections (CMEs...
Interdisciplinary studies reveal relationship between solar activity and climate change
Apr 25, 2017 (SPX)
Therefore, the astronomy factors, such as solar activity, present intriguing and cutting-edge questions to better understand climate change. Due to the interdis...
NASA and Partners Survey Space Weather Science
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Storms from the sun can affect our power grids, railway systems and underground pipelines through a phenomenon called geomagnetically induced currents, or GICs....
Hawaii-built Infrared Instrument for World's Largest Solar Telescope Catches its First Rays
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
The first of these to be completed is called the Cryogenic Near-Infrared Spectropolarimeter (CryoNIRSP). In a major milestone, it took its first look at the Sun...
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