Image: The sun in 2020
These 366 images of the sun were made by ESA's Proba-2 satellite in 2020.
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News tagged with coronal mass ejections
Aluminum alloy research could benefit manned space missions
The MIAMI-2—Microscopes and Ion Accelerators for Materials Investigations—facility has helped Dr. Matheus Tunes investigate a new alloy that will harden aluminum without increasing its weight significantly.
Materials Science
Dec 7, 2020
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Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries.
Astronomy
Dec 3, 2020
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Solar cycle 25: The sun wakes up
The sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been pretty sleepy, with few sunspots, bright flares or massive ejections of magnetized plasma emanating from its surface. ...
Astronomy
Oct 30, 2020
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Solar storms could be more extreme if they 'slipstream' behind each other
Modeling of an extreme space weather event that narrowly missed Earth in 2012 shows it could have been even worse if paired with another event.
Astronomy
Sep 29, 2020
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Study reveals important factors determining eruptive character of large solar flares
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are the most spectacular eruptive activities in the solar system. Large solar flares and CMEs can bring disastrous space weather, destroy our satellite and navigation system, ...
Astronomy
Sep 10, 2020
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A method to study extreme space weather events
Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), together with international colleagues, have developed a method to study fast coronal mass ejections, powerful bursts of magnetized matter from the outer ...
Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2020
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Researchers discover triple-layered leading-edge of solar coronal mass ejections
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Dr. MEI Zhixing in Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues reported a Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) numerical study on the coronal mass ejection ...
Astronomy
Jul 29, 2020
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TRACERS heliophysics mission enters Phase B
NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to proceed to Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The satellites, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2020
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Speed of space storms key to protecting astronauts and satellites from radiation
Space weather forecasters need to predict the speed of solar eruptions, as much as their size, to protect satellites and the health of astronauts, scientists have found.
Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2020
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