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NASA's extends IRIS Space Observatory for deeper look at the SunPalo Alto CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2016 Delivering the most detailed images of the sun's lower atmosphere ever recorded from space, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), built and operated by Lockheed Martin for NASA, has received more time to deliver groundbreaking space science. A recent $19.4 million contract extends Lockheed Martin's support for the orbiting observatory through September 2018, with a further extension possible through September 2019. "IRIS has taken more than 24 million images or spectral measurements of ... read more |
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 Curiosity Finds Evidence of Mars Crust Contributing to Atmosphere NASA develops satellite concept to exploit rideshare opportunities Rosetta measures production of water at comet over two years Alice Ultraviolet Spectrograph Completes Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P Rosetta's comet adventure in numbers Farewell Rosetta: ESA Mission to Conclude on Comet's Surface | .. |
 Russian Space Agency Plans to Launch Satellite to Study Sun Layers in 2025 Russia's Roscosmos space corporation plans to develop and launch a satellite to study external layers of the sun in 10 years, according to the public procurement portal data. It is noted that the re ... more | .. |
 Low-Cost Balloon-Borne Observatory Will Image Solar Sound Waves Southwest Research Institute will flight test a miniature solar observatory on a six-hour high-altitude balloon mission scheduled for the end of August. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform ( ... more | .. |
 Proba-3: seeing through shadow to view Sun's corona Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth's surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks the Sun, revealing its mysterious oute ... more | .. |
 NASA Establishes Contact With STEREO Mission On Aug. 21, 2016, contact was reestablished with one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, after communications were lost on Oct. 1, 2014. Over ... more |
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 1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force's budding efforts to monitor the ... more | .. |
 IRIS Spots Plasma Rain on Sun's Surface NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, captured a mid-level solar flare: a sudden flash of bright light on the solar limb - the horizon of the sun - as seen at the beginning of this ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Gain New Insight into Magnetic Field of Sun and its Kin Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic field in the Sun and stars like it are gen ... more | .. |
 Earth's Magnetosphere Has a Large Intake of Solar Wind Energy Solar wind forms the energy source for aurora explosions. How does the Earth's magnetosphere take in the energy of the solar wind? An international team led by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Naritoshi Kitamur ... more |
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 Solar Probe Plus Mission Moves into Advanced Development NASA's first mission to "touch" the Sun has passed a critical development milestone that keeps it well on track toward its scheduled summer 2018 launch. Following a successful NASA management ... more | .. |
 Slow Appearance of Sunspots Challenges Theory Solar active regions consist of strongly magnetic sunspots and surrounding regions of more diffuse magnetic field. These regions are the origin of solar activity which controls space weather and cau ... more | .. |
 ACT Now to Track Solar Eruptions in 3D Scientists at Aberystwyth University have developed an automated method for three-dimensional tracking of massive eruptions from the Sun, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The Automated CME Tria ... more | .. |
 Digitalization of analog data reveals past space weather patterns If you're about to throw out old data on bulky paper, hold your horses. A Japanese team have digitalized magnetogram recordings taken before direct observations by satellites became available. The a ... more |
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 'Space tsunami' causes the third Van Allen Belt Earth's magnetosphere, the region of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field, protects our planet from the harsh battering of the solar wind. Like a protective shield, the magnetosphere absorbs an ... more | .. |
 Physicist Develops New Model for Speed and Motion of Solar Flares A Montana State University physicist who has developed a new model that predicts the speed of solar plasma during solar flares, likening it to the path traveled by a thrown baseball, will present hi ... more | .. |
 Solar telescope on track for ground-breaking observations Construction of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is on schedule for operations in 2020, say reports from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division conference. It will be the hig ... more | .. |
 Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth Our sun's adolescence was stormy-and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it. Some 4 billion years ago, the sun shone with only about three-qu ... more |
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 Sounding rocket EVE supporting tune-up of SDO EVE instrument Satellites provide data daily on our own planet, our sun and the universe around us. The instruments on these spacecraft are constantly bombarded with solar particles and intense light, not to menti ... more | .. |
 The Sun's hidden magnetic field during grand minimum Gottingen, Germany (SPX) May 23, 2016 The Sun has an 11-year cycle that involves, among other things, the occurrence and disappearance of sunspots as well as strong changes in the global magnetic f ... more | .. |
 MMS Puts Magnetic Reconnection Under the Microscope A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection. Analyzing data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, scie ... more | .. |
 What sparks one of the most explosive processes in the universe Scientists are making new discoveries about a process that causes some of the most explosive events in the universe. At the same time, they are answering questions about Earth's magnetosphere - the ... more |
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 NASA directly observes fundamental process of nature for 1st time Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of s ... more | .. |
 Spacecraft fly through magnetic phenomenon to understand space weather For the first time, spacecraft have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth's space weather and geomagnetic storms. The Earth is surrounded by a magnetic bubble, called the ... more | .. |
 Swept Up in the Solar Wind From our vantage point on the ground, the sun seems like a still ball of light, but in reality, it teems with activity. Eruptions called solar flares and coronal mass ejections explode in the sun's ... more | .. |
 Sun's magnetic field during the grand minimum is in fact at its maximum The study of the Sun's long-term variation over a millennium by means of super computer modelling showed that during a time period of the Maunder Minimum type, the magnetic field may hide at the bot ... more |
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