Intense solar storms can cause electrical blackouts. Like a tornado siren for life-threatening storms in America’s heartland, a new computer model that combines artificial intelligence…
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the upper right – on March…
Wavelengths of light from three space observatories are overlapped to provide this unique view of the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA Some of the hottest spots in…
Halo-like solar corona. Credit: NASA Breakthrough in identifying the puzzling cause. Researchers discovered a previously unknown heating mechanism that explains why the “solar corona,” the…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare in 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right…
A new study by researchers from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), NASA and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) describes the observation of…
An X1.9 class solar flare flashes on the left edge of the Sun on January 9, 2023. This image was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics…
[embedded content]Credit: ESA & NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the top right – on October…
Representation of equinoxes and solstices. This year, the autumnal equinox occurs on September 22, marking the official start of Fall 2022. Complemented by cooler temperatures…
One of the first images of the chromosphere – the area of the Sun’s atmosphere above the surface – taken with the Daniel K. Inouye…
The first of six SunRISE SmallSats is shown here at a Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory clean room being worked on by engineers. Pointed…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sunspots are usually not a cause for concern, even if they double in size overnight and grow to be twice…
Astronomers have finally resolved the conflict between the internal structure of the Sun as determined from solar oscillations and the structure derived from the fundamental…
The model developed by the scientists includes the history of the rotation of the sun but also the magnetic instabilities that it generates. Credit: Sylvia…
The intriguing feature in the bottom third of the image, below the center, has been nicknamed the solar hedgehog. At present no one knows exactly…
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun are caused by “magnetic reconnection”—when magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, rejoin, and snap apart,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the upper right portion of the…
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun are caused by “magnetic reconnection”—when magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, rejoin, and snap apart,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the upper left portion of the…