News tagged with chromosphere

MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

(PhysOrg.com) -- Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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GREGOR telescope: Zooming in on the sun

(Phys.org) -- Nighttime is the astronomer’s day. After all, anyone wishing to see the stars must wait until it is dark. There is one exception to this rule, however: the sun. Close up, it can be used ...

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created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the Sun

Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely – the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and regained ...

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created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NRL refurbishes VAULT2.0 for reflight

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are refurbishing the Very-high Angular resolution ULtraviolet Telescope (VAULT) in preparation for two launches aboard NASA sounding rockets from the Navy's ...

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created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insights into sun's photosphere reported

NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the research team at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have reported new insights into the small-scale dynamics of the Sun's photosphere. The observations were ...

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun (w/ Video)

Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun.

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created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hinode Discovers the Origin of White Light Flare

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint Japan-United States research team has identified the origin of the white light emission in solar flares.

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created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

WUSTL professor testifies on helium shortage

The sudden shortage of a nuclear weapons production byproduct that is critical to industries such as nuclear detection, oil and gas, and medical diagnostics was the focus as a House Science and Technology panel heard testimony ...

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created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Proba-2 shows solar eruption that touched Earth (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Polar skies glowed with ghostly auroras last week during the biggest geomagnetic storm of 2010. The event owed its origin to a solar eruption a few days earlier -- revealed here in high-speed ...

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created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Camera developed by Stanford researchers launches from Cape Canaveral

(PhysOrg.com) -- An imager aboard a NASA satellite launched into Earth's orbit Thursday will photograph the sun's changing atmosphere and magnetic fields -- lending unprecedented insights into the dynamics ...

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created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2


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