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NASA STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs on Record
August 13, 2012 On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft along ... > full story -
New System Could Predict Solar Flares, Give Advance Warning
August 13, 2012 Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from ... > full story -
Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge
August 4, 2012 Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the last seven years, according to new data from NASA's Voyager ... > full story -
Solar Events Blocking Martian Satellite Signal Pinpointed
July 24, 2012 In August of 2005, the Mars Express spacecraft was dutifully sending back data on the stratigraphy of the upper regions of the Martian crust when its signal kept getting interrupted. Scientists ... > full story -
Solar Corona Revealed in Super-High-Definition
July 20, 2012 Astronomers have just released the highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun's corona, or million-degree outer atmosphere, in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light. The 16-megapixel images ... > full story -
Colorful Science Sheds Light on Solar Heating
July 19, 2012 Using a new technique a solar scientist has created images of the sun reminiscent of Van Gogh, with broad strokes of bright color splashed across a yellow background. But it's science, not ... > full story -
NASA Sees Sun Send out Mid-Level Solar Flare
July 19, 2012 A new image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 19, 2012 of an M7.7 class solar flare. The image represents light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, which is particularly good for ... > full story -
Riding the Plasma Wave: Evidence for a Type of Plasma Wave Moving Faster Than Theory Predicted
July 18, 2012 Using data from the WAVES instrument on NASA's Wind mission, researchers have discovered evidence for a type of plasma wave moving faster than theory predicted it could move. The research suggests ... > full story -
Sun's Coronal Mass Ejection Results in Aurora Show on Earth
July 16, 2012 Over the July 14-15, 2012 weekend and through the early morning of July 16, Earth experienced what's called a geomagnetic storm, which happens when the magnetic bubble around Earth, the ... > full story -
Solar Storm Protection
July 12, 2012 Massive explosions on the sun unleash radiation that could kill astronauts in space. Now, researchers have developed a warning system capable of forecasting the radiation from these violent solar ... > full story
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