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…
In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept…
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…
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…
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…
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 changing activity of our Sun as seen by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2019. The satellite is continuously monitoring the Sun – one image…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
Today, November 11, 2019, we’re in for a rare treat, as the innermost planet, Mercury, passes directly in front of the Sun for a few…
A rare transit of Mercury will take place on Monday, November 11, 2019, when the smallest planet in our Solar System will pass directly between…
Recently, this image from NASA showing the sun looking quite a bit like a flaming Jack-o’-Lantern has been all over mainstream news outlets. Although the…