Solar Eclipse July 22, 2009
Six minutes and 39 seconds – that’s the duration of this week’s total solar eclipse, the longest of the 21st century. The event begins at the…
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Deep Solar Minimum
The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008 was a…
Read the articleNASA Celebrates Sun_Earth Day, 2009
NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day With Illuminating Webcast NASA scientists will reveal new information and images about our sun and its influence on Earth and the solar…
Read the articleSolar Dynamics Observatory Is Launched
SDO Observatory – click for larger image NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on…
Read the articleOur Oblate Sun
Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During…
Read the articleThe Solar Wind Loses Power
Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low Data from the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission, show the sun has reduced…
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Predicting Solar Radiation Storms
A scientist using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has found a way to forecast solar radiation storms. The new method offers as much as one…
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