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The Sun's coronal tail wags its photospheric dog
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
Solar physicists have long viewed the rotation of sunspots as a primary generator of solar flares - the sudden, powerful blasts of electromagnetic radiation and...
Wayward Field Lines Challenge Solar Radiation Models
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
In addition to the constant emission of warmth and light, our sun sends out occasional bursts of solar radiation that propel high-energy particles toward Earth....
Researchers discover effect of rare solar wind on Earth's radiation belts
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire have captured unique measurements of the Van Allen radiation belts, which circle the Earth, during an extremely...
Regional Forecasts of Solar Storms Set to Begin Oct. 1
Sep 30, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time beginning next month, forecasts of the regional effects of solar storms will help protect the power grid and communications satellites, thank...
NASA's extends IRIS Space Observatory for deeper look at the Sun
Sep 22, 2016 (SPX)
Delivering the most detailed images of the sun's lower atmosphere ever recorded from space, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), built and operated...
Proba-3: set the controls for the verge of the Sun
Sep 15, 2016 (ESA)
By converging in orbit, a pair of small satellites will open a new view on the source of the largest structure in the Solar System: the Sun's ghostly atmosphere...
Russian Space Agency Plans to Launch Satellite to Study Sun Layers in 2025
Sep 05, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's Roscosmos space corporation plans to develop and launch a satellite to study external layers of the sun in 10 years, according to the public procuremen...
Images from Sun's edge reveal origins of solar wind
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
Ever since the 1950s discovery of the solar wind - the constant flow of charged particles from the sun - there's been a stark disconnect between this outpouring...
NASA's SDO witnesses a double eclipse
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both Earth and the moon crossing in front of the sun. SDO keeps a const...
Low-Cost Balloon-Borne Observatory Will Image Solar Sound Waves
Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)
Southwest Research Institute will flight test a miniature solar observatory on a six-hour high-altitude balloon mission scheduled for the end of August. The SwR...
NASA Establishes Contact With STEREO Mission
Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)
On Aug. 21, 2016, contact was reestablished with one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, after communications...
Proba-3: seeing through shadow to view Sun's corona
Aug 23, 2016 (ESA)
Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth's surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks ...
1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air ...
IRIS Spots Plasma Rain on Sun's Surface
Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden flash of bright light on the solar limb - the horizon of the s...
Astronomers Gain New Insight into Magnetic Field of Sun and its Kin
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic fiel...
Earth's Magnetosphere Has a Large Intake of Solar Wind Energy
Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)
Solar wind forms the energy source for aurora explosions. How does the Earth's magnetosphere take in the energy of the solar wind? An international team led by ...
Solar Probe Plus Mission Moves into Advanced Development
Jul 17, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's first mission to "touch" the Sun has passed a critical development milestone that keeps it well on track toward its scheduled summer 2018 launch. Followi...
Slow Appearance of Sunspots Challenges Theory
Jul 17, 2016 (SPX)
Solar active regions consist of strongly magnetic sunspots and surrounding regions of more diffuse magnetic field. These regions are the origin of solar activit...
ACT Now to Track Solar Eruptions in 3D
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Aberystwyth University have developed an automated method for three-dimensional tracking of massive eruptions from the Sun, called coronal mass ej...
Digitalization of analog data reveals past space weather patterns
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
If you're about to throw out old data on bulky paper, hold your horses. A Japanese team have digitalized magnetogram recordings taken before direct observations...
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