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The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity approximately every 11 years, and tracking these cycles is a key...
Number 4 in the Top 5 Solar Discoveries: The Seasons of the Sun. This talks about the discovery and importance of...
On Oct. 18, 2014, a sunspot rotated over the left side of the sun, and soon grew to be the largest active region...
Our sun is ever-changing, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory has a front-row seat. On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched...
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the...
The Sun erupted with an X8 solar flare, one of the largest of the current solar cycle (Sept. 10, 2017). Its source...
Should we be concerned about solar storms in 2012? Heliophysicist Alex Young from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center...
Number 2 in the Top 5 Solar Discoveries is the finding of the 'squashed' heliosphere when Voyager 1 and 2 crossed...
An active region on the sun — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — has rotated into view on the sun and...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, peaking at 11:17 p.m. EDT. The flare came from an active...
Observing a record Atlantic storm season, smoke from western fires seen moving east, and the start of a new solar...
NASA’s Lewis Research Center conducted extensive research programs in the 1960s and 1970s to develop systems that...
The only active region observed this week appeared on Dec. 5, 2018 and grew into an average size display of dynamic...
Over a three-week period (July 3-24, 2018), the Sun produced just one small, short-lived sunspot -- but it tells a...
Number 3 in the Top 5 Solar Discoveries is the finding of how the auroras form from magnetic reconnection.
An introduction plus Number 5 in the Top 5 Solar Discoveries, which include the discovery of sunspots by Galileo in...
Set up of a Brayton Cycle Power System test in the Space Power Facility’s massive vacuum chamber at the National...
Daniel Bernatowicz, Chief of the Advanced Power Systems Branch at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
The sun's only visible active region sputtered and spurted and eventually unleashed a small (C-class) flare (Feb. 7,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), workers check out...
The sun has been virtually spotless, as in no sunspots, over the past 11 days, a spotless stretch that we have not...
For the first time in a long time the Sun has gone an entire month without any sunspots (Feb. 1-18, 2019). To put...
The Sun's rotation brought a new active region into view, revealing the dynamic arches and twisting streams of its...
iss051e051544 (5/29/2017) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet holds a Mobile Unit in the...