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NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized
June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story -
Sun Emits a Solstice CME
June 22, 2013 — On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth ... > full story -
Solar Splashdown Provide New Insights Into How Young Stars Grow by Sucking Up Nearby Gas
June 20, 2013 — On June 7, 2011, our sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space. Some of that plasma splashed back down onto the sun's surface, sparking bright flashes of ultraviolet light. This dramatic ... > full story -
Flare Star WX UMa Becomes 15 Times Brighter in Less Than 3 Minutes
June 14, 2013 — Astrophysicists have detected a star of low luminosity which within a matter of moments gave off a flare so strong that it became almost 15 times brighter. The star in question is the flare star WX ... > full story -
Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions
May 30, 2013 — Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story -
NASA IRIS: Improving Our View of the Sun
May 29, 2013 — In late June 2013, NASA will launch a new set of eyes to offer the most detailed look ever of the sun's lower atmosphere, called the interface region. This region is believed to play a crucial role ... > full story -
Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares Explained: The Culprit Is Turbulence
May 22, 2013 — When a solar flare erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics. Why? Now we ... > full story -
Model of Sun's Magnetic Field Created
May 22, 2013 — Researchers have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the ... > full story -
NASA's IRIS Mission Readies for a New Challenge
May 21, 2013 — NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar ... > full story -
First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013
May 14, 2013 — On May 13, 2013, the sun emitted an X2.8-class flare, peaking at 12:05 p.m. EDT. This is the the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the X1.7-class flare that occurred 14 ... > full storyMore:
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