22 August 2016
Massive Young Star Discovered
... Astronomy, the study's lead author, "An average star like our Sun is formed over a few million years, whereas massive stars are... the Solar System - the inner planets rotate around the Sun more quickly than the outer planets," said Ilee. "It's ...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
... STEREO-B after it had moved further away from the sun and sun radio interference could no longer impede signals. The lines ...red and Behind in blue—are now far enough from the sun that mission operators can send signals to both spacecraft. STEREO-A...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... bizarrely it is orders of magnitude hotter than the surface of the Sun, which is a ‘cool’ 5500 °C. “These campfires are totally ... by themselves, but summing up their effect all over the Sun, they might be the dominant contribution to the heating of ...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
...Thomas Rimmele, director of the Inouye Solar Telescope. "To unravel the sun's biggest mysteries, we have to not only be able to ...the million-degree corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun." Better understanding the origins of potential disasters will ...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
...at 05:03 CET on 10 February on its mission to study the Sun from new perspectives. Signals from the spacecraft were received at New Norcia... of building a spacecraft that is ready to face the Sun and study it up close,” adds César García Marirrodriga...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...The features move from left to right as the Sun rotates. Solar cannonballs Forecasters, seeing the classic ...a number of areas: better monitoring of space weather at the Sun and near Earth advancing models that support exploration of the full range...
