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NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities
September 20, 2012 — The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material -- made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call ... > full story -
NASA Mission to Study Magnetic Explosions Passes Major Review
September 5, 2012 — On August 31, 2012, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission proved it was ready for its next steps by passing what's called a Systems Integration Review (SIR), which deems a mission ready to ... > full story -
NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun
September 4, 2012 — On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled ... > full story -
Radiation Belt Storm Probes: Spacecraft Pair to Explore Mysterious Region Where Other Satellites Fear to Tread
August 30, 2012 — Spacecraft pair will explore the mysterious region where other satellites fear to ... > full story -
ACE, Workhorse of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15
August 29, 2012 — The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is Earth's vanguard. Orbiting around a point 900,000 miles away between Earth and our sun, this satellite is ever vigilant, recording the combination of ... > full story -
Twin Satellites Will Help Improve Space Weather Forecasts
August 21, 2012 — On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission to study the extremes of space weather and help scientists improve ... > full story -
Sun's Plasma Loops Recreated in the Lab to Help Understand Solar Physics
August 21, 2012 — In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft soar high above storms on Earth, they are still ... > full story -
Hot Solar Wind: Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind
August 17, 2012 — New research has provided significant insight into how the solar wind heats up when it should not. The solar wind rushes outwards from the raging inferno that is our Sun, but from then on the ... > full story -
Sun's Almost Perfectly Round Shape Baffles Scientists
August 16, 2012 — The sun is nearly the roundest object ever measured. If scaled to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than ... > full story -
NASA Is Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun
August 16, 2012 — In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as the great jet streams that can move ... > full story
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