02 December 2016
GREGOR helps scientists take a closer look at the Sun
... star, as it plays a dominant role in virtually all processes in the solar atmosphere. Magnetic activity is responsible for the energy balance of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, and it produces most of the spectacular visible phenomena, like sunspots...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... that of the Sun. The advanced instrument suites will take remote measurements of the Sun and outer solar atmosphere, known as the corona, and also in-situ measurements of fields and particles. Design challenges As befits such an ambitious...
18 July 2018
Solar Planetary Systems
... system and then extends this to extra-solar systems. It covers the detection of exoplanets and habitable zones, solar atmospheres, climate change and organic life detection, and even solar satellites, planetary probes and space telescopes. In fact...
