solar flares

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun – NASA Science

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun – NASA Science

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, the spacecraft hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever … Read more

NASA, ESA Missions Help Scientists Uncover How Solar Wind Gets Energy – NASA Science

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NASA, ESA Missions Help Scientists Uncover How Solar Wind Gets Energy – NASA Science

“Our study addresses a huge open question about how the solar wind is energized and helps us understand how the Sun affects its environment and, ultimately, the Earth,” said Yeimy Rivera, co-leader of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. “If this … Read more

NASA’s Heliophysics Experiment to Study Sun on European Mission – NASA

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NASA’s Heliophysics Experiment to Study Sun on European Mission – NASA

NASA announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions. The agency’s Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation, or JEDI, will capture images of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light, a type of light invisible to our eyes but reveals many of the underlying mechanisms of the … Read more

How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades – NASA Science

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How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades – NASA Science

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of the solar flare on May 14, 2024 — as seen in the bright flash on the right side. These images show a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in royal blue and gold. This flare shows … Read more

Two NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare – NASA

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Two NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare – NASA

Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during an M-class solar flare for NASA’s sounding rocket solar flare campaign. The first rocket launched at 2:13 p.m. local Alaska time for the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) mission that used X-ray vision to observe … Read more

Beware! Solar flares can disrupt telecommunication in coming days, predicts physicists

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Beware! Solar flares can disrupt telecommunication in coming days, predicts physicists

Solar flares can disrupt telecommunication and satellite-based services in India and other parts of South East Asia in the coming days predicts solar physicists. With a large number of sunspots likely to face Earthwards soon, the Sun might continue to send electromagnetic radiations towards the Earth. The Earth has been facing solar flares frequently since … Read more

Solar seismic activity: Sunquakes could be originating from deep within the Sun, NASA says

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Solar seismic activity: Sunquakes could be originating from deep within the Sun, NASA says

A solar flare is an outburst that occurs in the outer atmosphere of the Sun. (File image: NASA Goddard) NASA on solar activity: Beneath the surface of the Sun there might lie the answers to the mystery around sunquakes, according to the US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For long, scientists have … Read more