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Stardust Spacecraft Encounters Solar Flare
November 22, 2000 — Quick-thinking NASA engineers and scientists helped the Stardust spacecraft survive a close encounter with a storm of high-energy particles from the Sun after a recent solar flare. ... > full story -
X-Ray Snapshots Capture The First Cries Of Baby Stars
November 10, 2000 — Stars, like babies, make quite a fuss in their first days after birth. Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered that protostars--stars in their youngest, "neonatal" ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Apparent "Outer Edge" To The Solar System
October 30, 2000 — Our solar system may have an outer "edge" just outside the orbit of Pluto, astronomers announced recently. Their results suggest that early in the history of the solar system, some event ... > full story -
Fountains Of Fire Illuminate Solar Mystery
September 27, 2000 — Giant fountains of fast-moving, multimillion-degree gas in the outermost atmosphere of the Sun have revealed an important clue to a long-standing mystery -- the location of the heating mechanism that ... > full story -
Ulysses Studies The Sun's Polar Cap At Sunspot Maximum
September 7, 2000 — The Ulysses spacecraft, on a mission to explore the Sun at extreme latitudes, today begins its investigation of the Sun's south polar region. This will be the second time Ulysses has passed under ... > full story -
First X-Ray From Brown Dwarf Observed
July 11, 2000 — Surprised scientists made provocative observations of an X-ray flare from a celestial object called a brown dwarf -- the first ever seen from such an object -- giving them strong hints of the tangled ... > full story -
It's A Snap: Magnetic Fields Seen "Snapping" Back To The Sun
June 25, 2000 — A decades-old mystery about the behavior of magnetic fields in solar flares may now be solved, thanks to careful observations by a pair of solar scientists. ... > full story -
More Accurate Space Storm Warnings Now Possible
June 21, 2000 — The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas clouds that cause severe space storms can now be predicted to within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous estimates of two to ... > full story -
USGS Issues Geomagnetic Storm Alert
June 9, 2000 — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is bracing for the likely arrival of a major geomagnetic storm and possible auroral activity over the next few days. While it is geomagnetic storms that give rise to ... > full story -
Coordinated Effort Of Space Observatories Detects New Type Of Stellar Flare
June 8, 2000 — A group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, in concert with other telescopes, have directly detected for the first time a new type of stellar flare ... > full story
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