New NASA Mission Will Study Giant Solar Particle Storms With 6 Spacecraft
An array of six spacecraft, each about the size of a toaster oven, will help us understand our nearest star and better protect astronauts traveling…
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Stellar Dynamos: Turbulent Convection at the Heart of Star Activity
By combining modern data analysis techniques with stellar structure modeling for main-sequence and giant stars, researchers shed new light on stellar dynamos. In their interiors,…
Cosmic Bursts of Radio Static From Solar Storms Could Scramble Whales’ Navigational Sense
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio static. When our sun belches out a hot stream of charged…
10 Amazing Discoveries About the Sun From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept…
Solar Orbiter Science Instrument Sends First Measurements to Ground Control
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday February 13, 2020, providing a confirmation to the international science teams that…
Solar Wind Samples Suggest New Physics of Mysterious Coronal Mass Ejections
A new study led by the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa has helped refine understanding of the amount of hydrogen, helium and other elements…
New Solar Telescope Produces Most Detailed Images of the Sun Ever [Video]
Preeminent telescope to play critical role in better understanding sun, space weather. Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar…
Solar Orbiter: New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun’s Poles [Video]
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between…
Presenting the Sun in 2019 in 365 Satellite Images
Presenting the changing activity of our Sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019. The satellite is continuously monitoring the Sun – one image…
Evolving Energy of a Solar Flare’s Explosive First Minutes Captured With New Radio Telescope
Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun’s surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision…
Parker Solar Probe’s First Discoveries: Strange Phenomena in Space Weather, Solar Wind
NASA mission named for pioneering University of Chicago scientist produces landmark research. Last summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe split the predawn skies in a blaze…
Outbursts of Highly Energetic Particles Detected on Closest-Ever Flyby of the Sun
New data from the first two orbits by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Outbursts of energetic particles that hurtle out from the sun and can disrupt…
Magnetic Explosions Observed on Sun – Unlike Anything Seen Before [Video]
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the…
New Evidence of Origins of Solar Wind From Closest-Ever Approach to the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the Sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the…
5 Astonishing New Discoveries From NASA’s Parker Solar Probe [Video]
In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun. With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the…
Hear the Eerie Song That Earth “Sings” When It Is Hit by a Solar Storm
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’…
Groundbreaking New Images Peel Away Layers of a Stellar Mystery
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries…
Solar Spicules Launched by Magnetic Reconnection on Sun’s Surface
New observations of solar spicules, ubiquitous jet-like plasma features that punctuate the Sun’s atmosphere, suggest they are generated by the energy released as the two…