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Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts
February 5, 2013 — In the bright, constant sun of the Antarctic summer, a NASA-funded team is launching balloons. There are twenty of these big, white balloons, each of which sets off on a different day for a leisurely ... > full story -
New 'Retention Model' Explains Enigmatic Ribbon at Edge of Solar System
February 5, 2013 — Since its Oct. 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer has provided images of the invisible interactions between our home in the galaxy and interstellar space. Particles emanating from ... > full storyMore: -
Light Shone on Star Mystery: Why Sun's Corona Is Much Hotter Than Its Surface
February 4, 2013 — Scientists have begun to unlock the mystery of why the outer edge of the Sun is much hotter than its surface for the first ... > full story -
Inside a Solar Eruption: NASA's SDO Provides First Sightings of How a Coronal Mass Ejection Forms
February 1, 2013 — On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection ... > full story -
Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making Planets
January 30, 2013 — A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to ... > full storyMore: -
NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
January 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark ... > full story -
Space Instrument Adds Big Piece to Solar Corona Puzzle
January 23, 2013 — How can the solar atmosphere get hotter, rather than colder, the farther you go from the sun's surface? This mystery has puzzled solar astronomers for decades. A suborbital rocket mission that ... > full story -
Setting the Dark on Fire: Beautiful View of Clouds of Cosmic Dust in Region of Orion
January 23, 2013 — In space, dense clouds of cosmic gas and dust are the birthplaces of new stars. In visible light, this dust is dark and obscuring, hiding the stars behind it. So much so that, when astronomer William ... > full story -
NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Is Fully Integrated
January 22, 2013 — NASA's next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to study the little-understood lower levels of the sun's atmosphere has been fully integrated and final testing is ... > full story -
Did an 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth?
January 21, 2013 — A nearby short duration gamma-ray burst may be the cause of an intense blast of high-energy radiation that hit the Earth in the 8th century, according to new ... > full story
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