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Sun Continues to Emit Solar Flares
Oct 31, 2013 (SPX)
After emitting its first significant solar flares since June 2013 earlier in the week, the sun continued to produce mid-level and significant solar flares on Oc...
NASA Releases Movie of Sun's Canyon of Fire
Oct 30, 2013 (SPX)
A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filame...
The Sun Also Flips: 11-Year Solar Cycle Wimpy, But Peaking
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
In a 3-meter diameter hollow aluminum sphere, Cary Forest, a University of Wisconsin-Madison physics professor, is stirring and heating plasmas to 500,000 degre...
Astronomers find clues to decades-long coronal heating mystery
Oct 17, 2013 (SPX)
Drs. Michael Hahn and Daniel Wolf Savin, research scientists at Columbia University's Astrophysics Laboratory in New York, NY, found evidence that magnetic wave...
SUNRISE Offers New Insight on Sun's Atmosphere
Oct 02, 2013 (SPX)
Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise - carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 - scientists from the Max Planck ...
Lunar orbiters discover source of space weather near Earth
Oct 02, 2013 (SPX)
Solar storms - powerful eruptions of solar material and magnetic fields into interplanetary space - can cause what is known as "space weather" near Earth, resul...
Several NASA Spacecraft Track Energy Through Space
Sep 30, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have provided the most comprehensive details yet of the journey energy from the sun takes as it hurtles around Earth's magnetosphere. Understanding t...
ESA's Cluster satellites in closest-ever 'dance in space'
Sep 25, 2013 (ESA)
Since 2000, the four identical satellites of the Cluster quartet have been probing Earth's magnetosphere in three dimensions. This week, two of them made their ...
NASA HEROES Set to Launch Balloon Solar And Space Imager
Sep 20, 2013 (SPX)
An innovative, dual solar/space imaging project, jointly developed by researchers at two NASA field centers, is targeted for launch in mid- September. The "High...
Effects of space weather studied in communication satellite outages
Sep 16, 2013 (UPI)
Space weather could be affecting satellites providing much of the world's access to television, the Internet and global communications, U.S. scientists say. Res...
No evidence of planetary influence on solar activity
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
In 2012, Astronomy and Astrophysics published a statistical study of the isotopic records of solar activity, in which Abreu et al. claimed that there is evidenc...
Another Earth-Directed CME
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
On August 21, 2013 at 1:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of pa...
NASA's SDO Mission Untangles Motion Inside the Sun
Sep 03, 2013 (SPX)
Using an instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, called the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, or HMI, scientists have overturned previous notions of ho...
NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection
Aug 26, 2013 (SPX)
On August 20, 2013 at 4:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon which can send billions of tons of pa...
Looming weak solar max may herald frosty times
Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)
The current solar activity cycle, possibly the weakest in 100 years, is approaching its maximum. This may signal a future low period for the sun, probably not u...
The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun's vast magnetic field is about to flip. "It lo...
Particle accelerator at heart of Van Allen radiation belts
Jul 29, 2013 (SPX)
Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the University of Colorado Boulder ...
NASA's IRIS Telescope Offers First Glimpse of Sun's Mysterious Atmosphere
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
The moment when a telescope first opens its doors represents the culmination of years of work and planning -- while simultaneously laying the groundwork for a w...
Large Coronal Hole Near the Sun's North Pole
Jul 23, 2013 (SPX)
The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, captured this image of a gigantic coronal hole hovering over the sun's north pole on...
The Heart of Space Weather Observed in Action
Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)
Two NASA spacecraft have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection. Ma...
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