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'Space tsunami' causes the third Van Allen Belt
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
Earth's magnetosphere, the region of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field, protects our planet from the harsh battering of the solar wind. Like a protectiv...
Physicist Develops New Model for Speed and Motion of Solar Flares
Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)
A Montana State University physicist who has developed a new model that predicts the speed of solar plasma during solar flares, likening it to the path traveled...
Solar telescope on track for ground-breaking observations
Jun 02, 2016 (SPX)
Construction of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is on schedule for operations in 2020, say reports from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics D...
Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
Our sun's adolescence was stormy-and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it. Some 4 billion years ago, ...
The Sun's hidden magnetic field during grand minimum
May 23, 2016 (SPX)
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) May 23, 2016 The Sun has an 11-year cycle that involves, among other things, the occurrence and disappearance of sunspots as well as st...
Sounding rocket EVE supporting tune-up of SDO EVE instrument
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
Satellites provide data daily on our own planet, our sun and the universe around us. The instruments on these spacecraft are constantly bombarded with solar par...
What sparks one of the most explosive processes in the universe
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists are making new discoveries about a process that causes some of the most explosive events in the universe. At the same time, they are answering questi...
NASA directly observes fundamental process of nature for 1st time
May 17, 2016 (SPX)
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconne...
MMS Puts Magnetic Reconnection Under the Microscope
May 16, 2016 (SPX)
A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection. Analyzing data from NASA's Magneto...
Spacecraft fly through magnetic phenomenon to understand space weather
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time, spacecraft have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth's space weather and geomagnetic storms. The Earth is surro...
Sun's magnetic field during the grand minimum is in fact at its maximum
May 11, 2016 (SPX)
The study of the Sun's long-term variation over a millennium by means of super computer modelling showed that during a time period of the Maunder Minimum type, ...
Swept Up in the Solar Wind
May 11, 2016 (SPX)
From our vantage point on the ground, the sun seems like a still ball of light, but in reality, it teems with activity. Eruptions called solar flares and corona...
Marshall simulates the solar and space environment to further exploration
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Inside inconspicuous Building 4605 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Todd Schneider is preparing to switch on the sun. He moves sur...
Star with different internal driving force than the sun
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
A star like the Sun has an internal driving in the form of a magnetic field that can be seen on the surface as sunspots. Now astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr...
Ground-breaking images of nearby star give new insight into Sun's infancy
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Pioneering new research that has provided close-up pictures of a nearby star has given a fascinating insight into how the Sun may have behaved billions of years...
NASA sounding-rocket missions will explore coronal nanoflares
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Why is the sun's outermost layer 1,000 times hotter than the visible surface of the sun? What are the physical mechanisms that allow oxygen atoms in Earth's atm...
NMSU investigates phenomenon crucial for solar flare production
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Solar flares are large storms on the sun that can affect us here on Earth, interfering with cell phone service, radio and GPS navigation systems. Unlike other s...
NJIT high-resolution images capture a solar flare as it unfolds
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured unprecedented images of a recent solar flare, including bright flare ribbons seen crossing ...
NASA missions measure solar flare from 2 spots in space
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
Solar flares are intense bursts of light from the sun. They are created when complicated magnetic fields suddenly and explosively rearrange themselves, converti...
SDO captures images of a mid-level solar flare
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:29 pm EDT on April 17, 2016. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured...
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