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NASA Tests a Solar Sail Segment of its Enormous Solar Cruiser Mission
A team led by NASA Marshall was selected to build a technology demonstrator called the Solar Cruiser to mature solar…
The Sun Could Hurl Powerful Storms at Earth From its Goofy Smile
Our Sun is the very reason we’re alive. It provides warmth and the energy our planet needs to keep going.…
Meet The Solar Ring: A Proposed Spacecraft That Will Have a Panoramic View of the Sun
The Sun is active, dynamic, and occasionally violent. Unfortunately our view of the Sun is limited to a small handful…
The Most Devastating Solar Storms in History are Scoured Into Tree Rings
Trees are like sentinels that preserve a record of shifting climates. Their growth rings hold that history and dendrochronology studies…
The History of the Sun is Written on the Moon
If you want to learn about the history of the Sun, then look no further than the Moon. That's the…
Solar Orbiter was hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection as it was About to Make a Flyby of Venus
Massive solar storms on the Sun are becoming more common as it moves into a period of increasing solar activity…
Insanely High-Resolution Images of the Sun Show its Chromosphere in Vivid Detail
New images of the Sun’s chromosphere – the lower region of the solar atmosphere -- have been released, and to…
Astronomers Watched a “Near-Sun” Comet Disintegrate as it Flew too Close to the Sun
Comets that venture close to the Sun can transform into something beautiful, but sometimes they encounter incineration if they get…
Solar Orbiter’s Pictures of the Sun are Every Bit as Dramatic as You Were Hoping
On March 26th, the ESA's Solar Orbiter made its closest approach to the Sun so far. It ventured inside Mercury's…
The Sun Didn't Have any Sunspots for 70 Years, now we Might Know why
A study of nearly 60 stars lets us understand why our Sun was once quiet for 70 years.