Solar Flare News

Posted May 14, 2013:

• First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013

Posted April 16, 2013:

• NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves

Posted April 2, 2013:

• NASA's SORCE Satellite Marks a Decade in the Sun

Posted March 20, 2013:

• Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April
• Voyager 1 Has Entered a New Region of Space, Sudden Changes in Cosmic Rays Indicate

Posted March 14, 2013:

• Particles and Fields Package Integrated on Upcoming Mars-Bound Spacecraft

Posted February 28, 2013:

• NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth

Posted February 21, 2013:

• NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
• Faraday Cup Critical Part of Audacious Mission to the Sun

Posted February 20, 2013:

• NASA's SDO Shows a Little 'Rain' on the Sun
• Sun's Next-Door Twin: Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A

Posted February 19, 2013:

• Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators

Posted February 12, 2013:

• Year Three: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission Highlights

Posted February 5, 2013:

• New 'Retention Model' Explains Enigmatic Ribbon at Edge of Solar System

Posted February 4, 2013:

• Light Shone on Star Mystery: Why Sun's Corona Is Much Hotter Than Its Surface

Posted February 1, 2013:

• Inside a Solar Eruption: NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a Coronal Mass Ejection Forms

Posted January 23, 2013:

• Space Instrument Adds Big Piece to Solar Corona Puzzle

Posted January 22, 2013:

• NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated

Posted January 21, 2013:

• Did an 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth?
• New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System

Posted January 14, 2013:

• New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

Posted January 8, 2013:

• Cluster Mission Indicates Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind

Posted December 17, 2012:

• 'Gusty Winds' in Space Turbulence: First Direct Measurement of Its Kind in the Lab
• How White Dwarfs Mimic Black Holes

Posted December 11, 2012:

• NASA's EUNIS Mission: Six Minutes in the Life of the Sun

Posted December 6, 2012:

• Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes

Posted December 5, 2012:

• Astronomers Discover and 'Weigh' Infant Solar System: Young Star With Rotating Dust Disk Is Youngest Still-Forming Planetary System Yet Found

Posted November 29, 2012:

• First-Ever Hyperspectral Images of Earth's Auroras: New Camera Provides Tantalizing Clues of New Atmospheric Phenomenon

Posted November 28, 2012:

• One Step Closer to 'Space Climate' Forecasting

Posted November 15, 2012:

• Born-Again Star Foreshadows Fate of Solar System

Posted November 13, 2012:

• Total Solar Eclipse, Nov. 13, 2012: Hinode to Support Ground-Based Observations
• NASA Sees Sun Emit a Mid-Level Flare

Posted November 1, 2012:

• NASA's SAMPEX Mission: A Space Weather Warrior
• Next-Generation X-Ray Telescope Ready to Fly
• Asteroid Belts of Just the Right Size Are Friendly to Life

Posted October 24, 2012:

• Earth's Magnetosphere Behaves Like a Sieve

Posted October 23, 2012:

• NASA Sees Active Region on the Sun Emit Another Flare

Posted October 5, 2012:

• Getting NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory Into Focus

Posted October 2, 2012:

• The Science Behind Those Eye-Popping Northern Lights

Posted September 29, 2012:

• Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, Coronal Mass Ejection

Posted September 24, 2012:

• Scientists Shed Light on Riddle of Sun's Explosive Events

Posted September 20, 2012:

• NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities

Posted September 5, 2012:

• NASA Mission to Study Magnetic Explosions Passes Major Review

Posted September 4, 2012:

• NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun

Posted August 30, 2012:

• Radiation Belt Storm Probes: Spacecraft Pair to Explore Mysterious Region Where Other Satellites Fear to Tread

Posted August 29, 2012:

• ACE, Workhorse of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15

Posted August 21, 2012:

• Twin Satellites Will Help Improve Space Weather Forecasts
• Sun's Plasma Loops Recreated in the Lab to Help Understand Solar Physics

Posted August 17, 2012:

• Hot Solar Wind: Magnetic Turbulence Trumps Collisions to Heat Solar Wind

Posted August 16, 2012:

• Sun's Almost Perfectly Round Shape Baffles Scientists

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