Tag: sun
Plasma flow near sun’s surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
Understanding previously mysterious properties of the sun.
Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA’s Fermi
Nothing can beat the brightness of Sun, but in a set of new images captured by NASA's Fermi space telescope, the moon seems to...
Physicists recreate mini sun to study solar winds and plasma burps
With their mini-sun in place, the researchers can take measurements at many points inside the ball, allowing them to study solar phenomena in three dimensions.
After NASA, ISRO wants to pursue India’s first mission to the Sun in 2020
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) now has its eyes on the Sun with solar mission Aditya-L1 in 2020.
NASA selects two missions to study sun, its effects on space weather
NASA recently selected two new missions to study our sun and its dynamic effects on the space weather. One mission will study the sun's...
Simulations suggest that our sun may have dual personality
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a computer simulation of the sun’s interior and discovered the hints that the Sun may have a dual...
Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun’s super-heating mystery
For more than a half-century, since the problem of coronal heating was discovered in the 1940s, astronomers have tried to establish why the Sun's...
Parker Solar Probe completes second close approach to the Sun
Launched on August 12, 2018, the probe has reached its perihelion, the second point on its orbit furthest from the Sun and is now...
Sun’s magnetic field is ten times stronger than previously believed
According to a new collaborative study by the Queen's University Belfast and Aberystwyth University, the sun's magnetic field is ten times stronger than previously...
