17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... the size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
... and Mars in what is being called the largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 yet. The Earth-bound eruption has been...: The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas; Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE); Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm (ARCS) and Solaris:...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... with four instrument suites designed to study plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, will gather data on the most abundant particles...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... a finding that can help mitigate the effects of powerful solar storms that have the potential to disrupt satellites in orbit... surges that lead to black outs. Presently, the US National Solar Observatory provides “eyes on the Sun” all day every day ...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Nonetheless, as a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the US alone without any prior warning, data collected...
03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
...China's Liaoning province, announced that the nation’s first solar sail based craft, SIASAIL-I, is currently whizzing through ...since 2011. Like its other LightSail companion in space, the solar sail is powered by the reflected light pressure of the ...
