NASA Video Reveals the Difference Between Solar Flares and CMEs
This short NASA video highlights the differences between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares. How do you tell the difference between a flare and…
This short NASA video highlights the differences between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares. How do you tell the difference between a flare and…
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite observed its largest solar flare since launching in 2013 – an X1.6 class flare. On September 10, 2014, NASA’s…
Scientists have discovered a new marker to track the course of the solar cycle, providing a new way to watch the way the magnetic fields…
For the first time, an international team of physicists has directly detected neutrinos created by the proton-proton fusion process going on at the sun’s core….
NASA’s EUNIS sounding rocket mission has discovered evidence to explain why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, detecting the strongest evidence…
New research presented at the 2014 Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting reveals an unusual series of puffs emanating from the base of the sun’s…
Using data from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, astronomers have discovered that the solar atmosphere of the sun is larger than previously thought, extending out…
Astronomers have identified the first star almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star. Dubbed HD 162826, the star…
Using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, researchers have developed a new technique that opens the door for near real-time mapping of the sun’s roiling…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory viewed a significant solar flare, classified as a X4.9-class flare, on February 24, 2014. The sun emitted a significant solar flare,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spots two new solar flares. The sun ushered out 2013 and welcomed 2014 with two mid-level flares on December 31, 2013…
New data from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer is making it possible to study the explosive phenomena in the region located between the surface of…
Sunrise observatory provides the first high-resolution images of the chromosphere in ultraviolet light. Three months after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise, scientists…
Using data from HMI, scientists compared the helioseismology results measured at four different heights within the sun’s surface, finding the long-sought equatorward flow inside the…
According to data from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip. Watch this new four minute ScienceCast video to learn more…
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) took its first images of the Sun, revealing the mysterious lowest layers of the sun’s atmosphere. The moment when…
A recently published study details new theoretical models that reveal how an outburst event in the Sun’s early years could help in the hunt for…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured an image of a coronal hole hovering over the sun’s north pole. The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric…