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First Large-Scale, Physics-Based Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation
January 27, 2011 — The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into ... > full story -
Improved Measurements of Sun to Advance Understanding of Climate Change
January 14, 2011 — Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate ... > full story -
New Insights Into Sun's Photosphere
January 10, 2011 — Researchers at Big Bear Solar Observatory have reported new insights into the small-scale dynamics of the Sun's photosphere. The observations were made during a period of historic inactivity on the ... > full story -
Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved
January 6, 2011 — One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Now scientists believe they have discovered a major ... > full story -
Surprising Flares in Crab Nebula
January 6, 2011 — Astronomers have recently detected two short-duration gamma-ray pulses coming from the Crab Nebula, which was previously believed to emit radiation at very steady rate. The pulses were fueled by the ... > full story -
Solar Research Instrument 'Fills the Gap,' Views Sun's Innermost Corona
January 4, 2011 — During a total eclipse of the sun, skywatchers are awed by the shimmering corona -- a faint glow that surrounds the sun like gossamer flower petals. The corona becomes visible only when the sun is ... > full story -
European Space Agency Makes the Sun Available to Everyone
December 15, 2010 — New software developed by the European Space Agency makes available online to everyone, everywhere at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric ... > full story -
NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline En Route to Interstellar Space
December 13, 2010 — The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar space ... > full story -
Global Eruption Rocks the Sun: Scientists Re-Evaluate Ideas About Solar Storms
December 13, 2010 — On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into ... > full story -
Dark Matter Could Transfer Energy in the Sun
December 1, 2010 — Researchers have studied the effects of the presence of dark matter in the Sun. According to their calculations, low mass dark matter particles could be transferring energy from the core to the ... > full story
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