When the total solar eclipse swept across the United States on Aug. 21, 2017, NASA satellites captured a diverse set of images from space. But days before the eclipse, some NASA satellites also enabled scientists to predict ...
Space Exploration
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An active region on the sun—an area of intense and complex magnetic fields—has rotated into view on the sun and seems to be growing rather quickly in this video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory between July ...
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2017
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High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year.
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2017
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The northern lights are nature's very own magnificent light show. They are the mesmerising end result of electrically charged particles from the sun colliding with the Earth's upper atmosphere. Though more frequently witnessed ...
Space Exploration
Feb 6, 2017
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Britain may lose the magic of the Northern Lights by the middle of the century due to major shifts in solar activity, scientists have discovered.
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2017
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The study of the sun's long-term variation over a millennium by means of super computer modelling showed that during a time period of the Maunder Minimum type, the magnetic field may hide at the bottom of the convection zone.
Space Exploration
May 9, 2016
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The surface of the sun writhes and dances. Far from the still, whitish-yellow disk it appears to be from the ground, the sun sports twisting, towering loops and swirling cyclones that reach into the solar upper atmosphere, ...
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The Sunspot Number is a crucial tool used to study the solar dynamo, space weather and climate change. It has now been recalibrated and shows a consistent history of solar activity over the past few centuries. The new record ...
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Aug 7, 2015
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Wouldn't it be great if scientists could make their minds up? One minute they're telling us our planet is warming up due to human activity and we run the risk of potentially devastating environmental change. Next, they're ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2015
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When you attach the prefix "nano" to something, it usually means "very small." Solar flares appear to be the exception.
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2015
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