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Seeing the Aurora in a New Light
Feb 06, 2013 (SPX)
On a cold February night in Poker Flat, Alaska, a team of scientists will wait patiently for the exotic red and green glow of an aurora to illuminate the sky. I...
NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar mater...
Sounding Rocket Mission Offers Roadmap To Future Solar Missions
Jan 30, 2013 (SPX)
A NASA sounding rocket flight in 2012 captured five minutes of the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's million-degree outer atmosphere, the corona...
Hi-C Mission Sees Energy in the Sun's Corona
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
The optics engineering expertise at the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., made it possible for a group of solar scientist to see into the...
Sun-Gazing Sorce Satellite, Designed To Last 5 Years, Turns 10
Jan 28, 2013 (SPX)
When a Sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging. A deca...
Solar eruption heading toward Earth
Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)
A coronal mass ejection from the sun is headed toward the Earth after erupting Wednesday morning and should arrive here in one to three days, NASA reported. Obs...
Why NASA Scientists Observe the Sun in Different Wavelengths
Jan 23, 2013 (SPX)
Taking a photo of the sun with a standard camera will provide a familiar image: a yellowish, featureless disk, perhaps colored a bit more red when near the hori...
NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to study the little-understood lower levels of the sun's atmosphere has been fully integrated and final testing is und...
New Sunspots Producing Space Weather
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar...
NASA's SDO Has Plenty of Content for Ultra HD TVs
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
A new kind of television made headlines at the 2013 annual Consumer Electronics Show in early January, 2013 - Ultra High Definition TV. With four times as many ...
Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star. While some stars exhibit dramatic pulsations, wildly yo-yoing in size and brightness, a...
Cluster Mission Indicates Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
The sun ejects a continuous flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields in the form of the solar wind -- and this wind is hotter than it should b...
Sun online
Dec 28, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Russian scientists have gained access to the data of the SDO solar observatory (NASA). The SDO Data Center is created in the Lebedev Physical Institute of the R...
Turbulent eddies may warm the solar wind
Dec 20, 2012 (ESA)
The Sun ejects a continuous flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields in the form of the solar wind. One of the long-standing puzzles of solar ...
UI-led team confirms 'gusty winds' in space turbulence
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine riding in an airplane as the plane is jolted back and forth by gusts of wind that you can't prove exist but are there nonetheless. Similar turbulence ex...
NASA's EUNIS Mission: Six Minutes in the Life of the Sun
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
In December, a NASA mission to study the sun will make its third launch into space for a six-minute flight to gather information about the way material roils th...
New radio telescope could save world billions
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
A small pocket of Western Australia's remote outback is set to become the eye on the sky and could potentially save the world billions of dollars. The Murchison...
Australia unveils telescope to warn of solar flares
Dec 01, 2012 (AFP)
Australia has unveiled a new radio telescope in the remote outback that will give the world a vastly improved view of the sun and much faster warnings on massiv...
Solar Minimum; Solar Maximum
Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)
The sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years. The cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots - visible as dark blemishe...
The 11-Year Solar Cycle Continues During Prolonged Sunspot Minima
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
Streaming into the solar system at nearly the speed of light, galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are a high-energy mix of protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei. As the...
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