Tag: The sun

PUNCH is a group of four satellites that will orbit Earth above the day-night terminator to study the Sun. Credit: ...

High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth. Such belts have been seen ...

Back to Article List From the January 2025 issue Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of ...

Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one ...

Back to Article List The NASA mission has broken its own record as it seeks to teach us more about ...

Scientists have just released a 10-year plan for studying the Sun, currently at its solar maximum. Credit: NASA At its ...

A superflare erupts from a young sunlike star in this artist’s impression. Credit: CfA/Melissa Weiss Solar flares are bright flashes ...

Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar ProbeNASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe In less than two weeks, a spacecraft will pass through the atmosphere ...

The two spacecraft of the Proba-3 mission will fly in careful synchronization to create an artificial eclipse for six hours ...