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Sunset Solar Eclipse
Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)
Sunsets are always pretty. One sunset this month could be out of this world. On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, the setting sun across eastern parts of the USA will be red...
NASA Spacecraft Provides New Information About Sun's Atmosphere
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided scientists with five new findings into how the sun's atmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotte...
Tiny Nanoflares Might Heat the Sun's Corona
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
Why is the Sun's million-degree corona, or outermost atmosphere, so much hotter than the Sun's surface? This question has baffled astronomers for decades. Today...
First space weather forecast center opens in Britain
Oct 11, 2014 (XNA)
The first space weather forecast center opened Wednesday in Exeter, southwestern England. With a funding of 4.6 million pounds (7.4 million U.S. dollars) from t...
Nitrogen fingerprint in biomolecules could be from early sun
Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)
Chemical fingerprints of the element nitrogen vary by extremes in materials from the molecules of life to the solar wind to interstellar dust. Ideas for how thi...
Solar explosions inside a computer
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Strong solar flares can bring down communications and power grids on Earth. By demonstrating how these gigantic eruptions are caused, ETH physicists are laying ...
CME Week: The Difference Between Flares and CMEs
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
There are many kinds of eruptions on the sun. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections both involve gigantic explosions of energy, but are otherwise quite differ...
PPPL scientists take key step toward solving a major astrophysical mystery
Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)
Magnetic reconnection can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt cell phone service, damage satellites and black out power grids. But how reconnection, in whic...
Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts
Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)
Two big explosions on the surface of the sun will cause a moderate to strong geomagnetic storm on Earth in the coming days, possibly disrupting radio and satell...
Check out the massive solar flare the sun had today
Sep 10, 2014 (UPI)
The sun was pretty active Wednesday, unleashing a huge solar flare toward the Earth. The sun fired off what's known as an X-class solar flare, the most powerful...
Researchers Discover New Clues to Determining the Solar Cycle
Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)
Approximately every 11 years, the sun undergoes a complete personality change from quiet and calm to violently active. The height of the sun's activity, known a...
Researchers Use NASA and Other Data to Look Into the Heart of a Solar Storm
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
A space weather storm from the sun engulfed our planet on Jan. 21, 2005. The event got its start on Jan. 20, when a cloud of solar material, a coronal mass ejec...
Detecting neutrinos, physicists look into the heart of the sun
Aug 29, 2014 (SPX)
Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team of physicists including Andrea Pocar, Laura Cadonati and doctoral studen...
NASA Captures Images of a Late Summer Flare
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
On Aug. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the flare, which erupt...
Spare Off-the-Shelf Instrument Continues Solar Output Data with Excellent Results
Aug 22, 2014 (SPX)
When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, sponsored the Total solar irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment, or TCTE, project launch...
Monitoring Solar Activity with SDO
Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)
At times, the sun erupts, hurling a magnetic superheated cloud of gas toward Earth. Racing at thousands of miles per second, and hundreds of times bigger than t...
Sun sets for a NASA solar monitoring spacecraft
Aug 13, 2014 (JPL)
After 14 years of monitoring Earth's main energy source, radiation from the sun, NASA's Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite has lost contact w...
Northrop Grumman's Scalable SIRU tapped for space mission
Aug 12, 2014 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman's space inertial reference system is to be used on NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission to examine the atmosphere of the Sun. The Scalable Space Ine...
Step closer to birth of the sun
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers are a step closer to understanding the birth of the sun. Published in Science, the team led by Dr Maria Lugaro and Professor Alexander Heger, from M...
Coronal Heating Theory Tested In NASA Sounding Rocket Mission
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The n...
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