08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
... challenging though. However, after months of searching through years worth of data taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, Emily Mason, a solar scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center stumbled upon a breakthrough; the rain was...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
.... A long filament erupted on the Sun on 31 August 2012 and was imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Earth is a constantly bombarded not just by solar radiation but by cosmic radiation originating from the nuclear reactions in stars, from...
