The Sun Celebrates Independence Day With Solar Flare
The Sun celebrated July 4, 2012, by sending out an M5.3 class solar flare from region AR1515, the same region that produced an M5.6 class…
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New Light Shed on the Origins of Extreme Space Storms
Based on data from the Hinode satellite, a newly published study provides the first evidence of plasma upflows traveling at around 20 km per second…
Ready for Launch, NASA’s SUMI Rocket to Study the Sun’s Magnetic Fields
NASA’s SUMI rocket mission is set to launch this week from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, testing the technologies that have been developed…
Ultrafine Loops of Solar Material Scattered on the Sun’s Surface
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Hinode Mission to Observe Annular Solar Eclipse This Weekend
This coming weekend, May 20-21, 2012 will provide us with a view of an annular eclipse of the Sun, which NASA plans to observe and…
Kepler Observations Suggest That Superflares Erupt in G2V-Type Stars
Solar flares happen when magnetic-field loops threading through sunspots get twisted and break, producing massive amounts of radiation that accelerate charged particles into space. The…
Earth in Motion and the Galaxies Around it
Once scientists realized that their understanding of the distribution of galaxies was incorrect, researchers began studying the large-scale structure of the universe to better understand…
NASA Captures Image of M1 Coronal Mass Ejection
As major solar activity continues, NASA captured an image and video of the latest class M1 coronal mass ejection. A beautiful prominence eruption producing a…
Videos Covering Heliophysics Explain the Science of the Sun
Five Newly released videos from NASA help describe the science of the sun and its effects on the solar system and Earth, while covering the…
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Eruption in Extreme UV
The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory was able to capture this incredible video of a recent coronal mass ejection (CME) on April 7th from the sun’s…
Superheated Solar Tornadoes on the Sun
Using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescope, new imagery shows solar tornadoes comprised of superheated gases as hot as 50,000 – 2,000,000 Kelvin on the surface…
NASA Continues to Monitor Solar Flares
As NASA continues to give updates on the solar flares this week, they also put together a nice summary of space weather and the effects…
Researchers Believe Molecular Hydrogen Has Role in Formation and Evolution of Sunspots
Researchers used the Facility Infrared Spectropolarimeter (FIRS) at the National Solar Observatory’s Dunn Solar Telescope to analyze sunspot emergence and cooling. Their research leads them…
NASA’s NuSTAR is One Step Closer to Launching
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch. The NuSTAR was shipped to the Vandenberg Air Force Base…
Strong Geomagnetic Storms a Possibility After Active Sunspot 1401 Erupted
An active sunspot erupted on Sol on January 19th, at around 16:30 UT, which produced an M3-class solar flare as well as a full-halo coronal…
Solar Dynamics Observatory Measures Magnetic Fields on Sun’s Surface
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory helps map the sun’s magnetic fields and has been gathering data since 2010. Recent vector…
Comet Survives after Close Brush With the Sun
Comet Lovejoy, discovered a few weeks ago, was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures would hit several…