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News features from 2010 | 2009
- Curiosity and the Solar Storm
- 12.14.11 – Curiosity, launched on Nov. 26 on the Mars Science Laboratory, has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars using an instrument called the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) that monitors high-energy atomic and subatomic particles.
- Space Weather Workshop
- 12.06.11 – Five scientists speaking at a workshop at the 2011 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 6 at 10 AM PST will discuss the complex – and relatively new – research area of space weather.
- Hinode's First Light…and Five More Years
- 11.01.11 – Five years after its instruments turned on, Hinode has provided some of the highest resolution images of the sun the world had ever seen -- as well as help solve such mysteries as why the sun's atmosphere is a thousand times hotter than its surface.
- Solar Cycle Primer
- 10.27.11 – The number of sunspots on the sun increase and decrease over time in a regular, approximately 11-year cycle. More sunspots mean increased solar…
- Beautiful Red Aurora
- 10.25.11 – A coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the sun late in the evening of October 21 and hit Earth on October 24 at about 2 PM ET causing red aurora in the U.S.
- STEREO Celebrates Five Years
- 10.25.11 – On Oct. 25, 2006 STEREO launched to do something never done before: see the entire sun simultaneously.
- Incoming Comet; Outgoing CME
- 10.04.11 – On October 2, 2011, an exceptionally bright comet headed toward the sun and disintegrated; moments later a large coronal mass ejection (CME) blew off the other side of the sun.
- Solar Activity Subsiding - Auroras Ablaze
- 09.12.11 – After last week's flurry of strong flares from sunspot 1283, solar activity is subsiding as this sunspot rotates over the sun's western limb. Aurora from last week's solar activity will be dancing in the sky for the next several day.
- Sun Packs a Double Punch-UPDATED
- 08.08.11 – The August 5, 2011 arrival of the combined August 3 CMEs caused many photographers in the northern U.S. and Europe to race outside with their cameras to record the colorful skies. They were not disappointed.
- Having a Solar Blast - UPDATE
- 06.10.11 – Earth is still waiting for the arrival of the CME unleashed June 7, 2011 but the forecasts of the glancing blow have been substantially reduced. The Sun unleashed an M-2 solar flare, an S-1 radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection in the early hours of June 7, 2011.
- Goddard Building Instrument To Study Reconnection
- 04.29.11 – At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, scientists and engineers are working on a crucial element of the the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to study magnetic reconnection: the Fast Plasma Instrument (FPI).
- Celebrating 400 Years of Sunspot Observations
- 03.09.11 – On March 9, 1611, Johannes Fabricius, who would become the first person to publish a scientific paper on sunspots, used a telescope to catch his first glimpse of one of these dark spots on the sun.
News features from 2010 | 2009
