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Astronomers Find Link Between Earliest Illustration Of Sunspots In Medieval Britain And An Observation Of Aurora In Medieval Korea
July 17, 2001 — Scientists at the University of Warwick and the University of Durham have linked the very first historical illustration of sunspots, recorded in Medieval England in 1182, with the appearance of the ... > full story -
Genesis Set To Catch A Piece Of The Sun
July 12, 2001 — NASA'S next robotic space explorer is ready to do a little sunbathing on a mission to catch a wisp of raw material from the luminous celestial body around which the Earth and other planets ... > full story -
NASA Shows First Total Solar Eclipse Of The New Millennium
June 20, 2001 — Our Sun is about to take a break for the summer, albeit a brief repose noticeable only by people in Southern and Central ... > full story -
UCLA Astronomers Identify Evidence Of Asteroid Belt Around Nearby Star: Findings Indicate Potential For Planet Or Asteroid Formation
June 5, 2001 — Identifying what may be a galactic replay of how our own solar system was formed, UCLA astronomers have found evidence of a massive asteroid belt around a nearby star - findings that could indicate ... > full story -
Five Years Of Discoveries With SOHO Have Made The Sun Transparent
May 11, 2001 — Anyone troubled by storms on the Sun will now have an extra week's early warning of eruption risks, courtesy of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. Teams in the United ... > full story -
Sun Takes Another Solar Shot, This Time At Earth
April 12, 2001 — An angry Sun fired off another powerful X-class flare Tuesday, April 10. X-class flares are the most powerful classification, and this flare, rated X-2, was the most recent in a series that included ... > full story -
Sun Unleashes Record Superflare, Earth Dodges Solar Bullet
April 4, 2001 — The Sun blasted one of its largest flares in 25 years from the same region harboring the largest sunspot of the current solar cycle Monday evening. The region, designated active region 9393, has ... > full story -
Simple Control Strategy Derived For Solar-Sail Spacecraft
April 3, 2001 — This year’s anticipated launch of the Planetary Society’s "Cosmos 1" spacecraft may usher in the long-awaited age of solar sailing. The performance of such spacecraft could be ... > full story -
Now Playing At The Star Nearest You: The Largest Sunspot In Ten Years Blazes Away With Eruptions
March 30, 2001 — A huge sunspot, thirteen-times larger than the surface area of the Earth and growing, has now rotated with the Sun to face our planet. The sunspot, which is the largest of the current solar cycle, is ... > full story -
Kinks In Sun's Waves Unraveled
March 29, 2001 — Kinks in the Sun's magnetic field have puzzled scientists since they first started studying the solar wind, and now researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have ... > full story
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