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Eclipse 2017: NASA Supports a Unique Opportunity for Science in the Shadow
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
The first total solar eclipse in the continental United States in nearly 40 years takes place on Aug. 21, 2017. Beyond providing a brilliant sight in the daytim...
NASA Scientist Studies Whether Solar Storms Cause Animal Beachings
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
A long-standing mystery among marine biologists is why otherwise healthy whales, dolphins, and porpoises - collectively known as cetaceans - end up getting stra...
New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the su...
Extreme space weather-induced blackouts could cost US more than $40 billion daily
Jan 19, 2017 (SPX)
The daily U.S. economic cost from solar storm-induced electricity blackouts could be in the tens of billions of dollars, with more than half the loss from indir...
ALMA starts observing the sun
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have revealed otherwise invisible details of our Sun, including a new vie...
Next-generation optics offer the widest real-time views of vast regions of the sun
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
A groundbreaking new optical device, developed at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) to correct images of the Sun distorted by multiple layers of atmosphe...
NASA moon data provides more accurate 2017 eclipse path
Jan 09, 2017 (SPX)
On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, millions in the U.S. will have their eyes to the sky as they witness a total solar eclipse. The moon's shadow will race across the Uni...
Moore Foundation provides libraries with a millione solar-eclipse viewers
Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)
The Space Science Institute was awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation that will provide 1.26 million solar viewing glasses and other resources for 1,500 pub...
Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, a total eclipse will cross the entire country, coast-to-coast, for the first time since 1918. Weather permitting, the entire continent...
Giving the Sun a brake
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), Brazil, and Stanford University may have solved a long-standing solar mystery. Two deca...
Perspectives on magnetic reconnection
Dec 09, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists are closer than ever to unraveling a process called magnetic reconnection that triggers explosive phenomena throughout the universe. Solar flares, no...
NASA's Sun-Observing IRIS Mission
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
While it seems static from our vantage point on Earth 93 million miles away, the sun is constantly changing. Under the influence of complex magnetic forces, mat...
GREGOR first results published in special issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
A special issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics contains a series of scientific articles, which are based on data obtained with the GREGOR solar telescope in 2014...
Article proposes theory behind fast magnetic reconnection
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University have proposed a groundbreaking solution ...
ESA expands space weather services
Nov 21, 2016 (ESA)
A major expansion in the space weather information and services provided by ESA will help satellites in space and networks like power grids on Earth to cope wit...
CU Boulder instrument suite will assess space weather
Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)
A multimillion dollar University of Colorado Boulder instrument package expected to help scientists better understand potentially damaging space weather is now ...
An easier way to observe the inner workings of the sun
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
In 2009, applied physicist Peter Sturrock was visiting the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, when the deputy director of the observatory told him h...
How to read a STEREO image
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
In the same way that two eyes give humans a three-dimensional perception of the world around us, the twin spacecraft of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Obser...
Gaining a revolutionary view of the Sun in STEREO
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
Launched 10 years ago, on Oct. 25, 2006, the twin spacecraft of NASA's STEREO mission - short for Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory - have given us un...
Tracking waves from sunspots gives new solar insight
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
While it often seems unvarying from our viewpoint on Earth, the sun is constantly changing. Material courses through not only the star itself, but throughout it...
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