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Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
New research led by University of Warwick physicist Dr Kareem Osman has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The so...
NASA is Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun
Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)
In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as t...
The Sun's Almost Perfectly Round Shape Baffles Scientists
Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)
The sun is nearly the roundest object ever measured. If scaled to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narr...
New Report Presents Research Program for Solar and Space Physics Over the Next Decade
Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)
A new report from the National Research Council presents a prioritized program of basic and applied research for 2013-2022 that will advance scientific understa...
Hinode scientists' stellar effort keeps Sun mission 'burning bright'
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
Whilst the most powerful earthquake since records began hit Japan in 2011, triggering a massive tsunami which devastated much of the country, space scientists i...
New system could predict solar flares, give advance warning
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, po...
NASA STEREO observes 1 of the fastest CMEs on record
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations ...
10-year plan for space physics put forward
Aug 15, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. scientists have released a report recommending research for the next decade on the sun, sun-Earth connections and the origins of "space weather." An 18-mon...
New NASA Mission Ready To Brave Earth Radiation Belts
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will send two spacecraft into the harsh environment of our planet's radiation belts. Final preparations have b...
Cluster looks into waves in the magnetosphere's thin boundaries
Aug 07, 2012 (ESA)
Exploiting a favourable configuration of ESA's Cluster mission spacecraft, scientists have detected and characterised lower hybrid drift waves, a special kind o...
Planetary missions probe giant eruptions in the Sun's corona
Jul 31, 2012 (ESA)
Scientists have probed the corona of the Sun by studying the disturbances that it causes to radio transmission from three of ESA's planetary missions: Mars Expr...
The Sun has a great idea
Jul 30, 2012 (ESA)
A light bulb-shaped eruption leaps from the Sun and blasts into space in this archival image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO. SOHO ca...
20 Years Of Solar Science Still Going Strong With Geotail
Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)
On July 24, 1992, the joint JAXA/NASA Geotail mission launched into space aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. It was the vanguard for a set of coordinated mission...
A Taste of Solar Maximum
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections,...
NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun's Corona
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's million-degree atmosphere called t...
Aurora Australis over Concordia station 18 July
Jul 25, 2012 (ESA)
A stunning image showing Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights - glowing over Concordia station in the Antarctic, one of the remotest places on Earth, on 18 Ju...
Colorful science sheds light on solar heating
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information - often thr...
Solar Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength...
Heliophysics Nugget: Riding the Plasma Wave
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
Throughout the universe more than 99 percent of matter looks nothing like what's on Earth. Instead of materials we can touch and see, instead of motions we intu...
NRL Leads NASA Team Workshop on Coronal Mass Ejection Initiation
Jul 18, 2012 (SPX)
Dr. Mark Linton, a researcher in the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division, recently convened a workshop exploring coronal mass ejections (CMEs). D...
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