An image of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. This particular image was taken…
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For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World. Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) On Saturday, December…
During a total solar eclipse, the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up so that the Sun is blocked when viewed from within the Moon’s shadow…
A close up of a solar eruption, including a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, and a solar energetic particle event. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space…
Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Credit: NASA Blazing along at space-record speeds that would get it from Earth to…
An analysis of observational data and a large climate model finds Earth’s 11-year cycle is out of sync with solar fluctuations. The Earth’s global climate…
Artist’s concept of Lucy Mission. Credit: SwRI Asteroids embody the story of our solar system’s beginning. JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the solar system…
An illustration of the heliosphere being pelted with cosmic rays from outside our solar system. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab Our corner…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — as seen in the bright flash at the Sun’s lower center — on…
[embedded content]Credit: All-sky camera, Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory (KAGO) within the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). Data provided as part of ESA’s Space…
Cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere may be important for cloud formation. Credit: DTU Space Large Effect of Solar Activity on Earth’s Energy Budget This…
The CME associated with the October 9, 2021, M1 flare arrived as anticipated early on October 12, UTC-day. The CME shock front arrived at the…
An artist’s rendition of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Astronomers have used data from Parker, along with data from other solar missions, to…
Credit: Reaktor Space Lab Around the same size as two big Harry Potter paperbacks, ESA’s Sun-watching Sunstorm CubeSat has produced its first solar X-ray spectrum, coming just over…
New research from University of Colorado at Boulder, could help scientists better understand the phenomena behind ‘sunspots’. The sun has long intrigued scientists. However, this…
Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious…
New solar cycle clock resolves timings of solar activity, revealing the long and the short of the Sun’s seasons. Research led by University of WarwickFounded…
Mysterious Iron Nanoparticles: Planetary Scientists Find Evidence of Solar-Driven Change on the Moon
Mysterious Iron Nanoparticles: Planetary Scientists Find Evidence of Solar-Driven Change on the Moon
PhD student discovers that solar radiation could be a more important source of lunar iron nanoparticles than previously thought. Tiny iron nanoparticles unlike any found…
During its 2013 flight, NASA’s EUNIS sounding rocket examined light from the Sun in the area shown by the white line (imposed over an image…