Tag: corona
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...
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...
Unexpected rain on Sun links two solar mysteries
For five months in mid-2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...
Parker Solar Probe snaps its first image from inside Sun’s atmosphere
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on the mission to enlight the physics of our star, the Sun.
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 11, 2018, Parker Solar...
NASA’s Hi-C launches to study Sun’s corona
In the aim of studying the sun, NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space. The camera named High-Resolution Coronal Imager...
Where The Sun’s Plasma Jets Come From?
There were several big questions in solar physics. For example, how the sun's plasma jets form, Why the Sun's outer atmosphere is far hotter than the...
