June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
...-energy solar astrophysics, space weather and statistical data science with a focus on engaging the public through education, outreach and science communication. Dr Young led NASA’s national engagement plan for the August 2017 total solar eclipse.
08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
...high into the corona and can be readily observed during a solar eclipse. Rain or small blobs of plasma released from the tips... this new explanation, but she also hopes that the Parker Solar Probe, which is traveling closer to the Sun than any ...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... the Jupiter system at extremely low temperatures (even colder than -200 C at Jupiter arrival, and during solar eclipses). Contrarily, Solar Orbiter will perform in-situ and direct remote sensing measurements of the Sun at a closer distance than ever...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... a number of firsts as it wings its way through the Solar System. It was the first probe to observe Pluto up close...seen from different locations. Hipparchus used observations of a solar eclipse from two different locations to measure the distance to ...