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Sunrise 2: A Journey To The Active Sun
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
After two months of preparations in Kiruna in the north of Sweden, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise is ready for its next flight: only a last ground-...
2,500-year-old tombs in China suggest sun-worshiping culture
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
Chinese archaeologists say a cluster of ancient tombs in the country's far west are arranged in a manner that implies a sun-worshiping culture. The tombs were f...
NASA IRIS: Improving Our View Of the Sun
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
In late June 2013, NASA will launch a new set of eyes to offer the most detailed look ever of the sun's lower atmosphere, called the interface region. This regi...
New technique can track solar storms as they head toward Earth
May 31, 2013 (UPI)
Chinese scientists say they've found a new way to track solar coronal mass ejections, hazardous ejections of matter from the sun that can affect Earth. Research...
A first for NASA's IRIS: a gigantic eruption of solar material
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
Earlier this month, a coronal mass ejection (CME) -- which sounds both gross and dangerous, until you learn it's just a really big solar flare -- leaped from th...
Researchers Explain Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics. The flux-freezing th...
Satellites See Storm System that Created Oklahoma Tornado
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
On May 20, 2013, NASA and NOAA satellites observed the system that generated severe weather in the south central United States and spawned the Moore, Okla., tor...
Researchers reveal model of Sun's magnetic field
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Chicago have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that o...
Ground and Space-based Observations Unveil Future of Sun
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
A team of astronomers led by Jose Dias do Nascimento (Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte [DFTE, UFR...
IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
The time draws near. NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dyn...
Activity Continues On the Sun
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
Solar activity continued on May 14, 2013, as the sun emitted a fourth X-class flare from its upper left limb, peaking at 9:48 p.m. EDT. This flare is classified...
NASA says sun eruption sending billions of tons of particles at Earth
May 17, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection early Friday, sending billions of tons of solar particles into space and heading our way....
Sun unleashes four potent solar flares
May 15, 2013 (AFP)
The Sun has unleashed four potent solar flares this week, marking the most intense activity yet this year and causing limited interruptions to high-frequency ra...
Impacts of Strong Solar Flares
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather -- great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes...
NASA: Solar flare was first of most intense class observed this year
May 13, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says a solar flare emitted by the sun late Sunday was an "X-class" event -- the most intense flares -- and the first such "X" flare of the year. Peaking at...
NASA spots a square hole in the sun
May 12, 2013 (UPI)
An updraft of solar winds ripped a hole in the sun's outer atmosphere with remarkable geometric precision, creating a nearly perfect square. The dark spot, seen...
Satellite instrument package to assess space weather ready for delivery by CU-Boulder
May 06, 2013 (SPX)
A multimillion dollar University of Colorado Boulder instrument package to study space weather has passed its pre-installation testing and is ready to be incorp...
Cluster hears the heartbeat of magnetic reconnection
May 03, 2013 (ESA)
For the first time, scientists have resolved the detailed structure of the core region where magnetic reconnection takes place in the magnetosphere of Earth usi...
Orbital Selected By NASA To Build Icon Space Weather Satellite
May 01, 2013 (SPX)
Orbital Sciences has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, manufacture, integrate and test a new heliophysics sci...
NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electr...
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