Solar Astronomy
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
Most Powerful Solar Telescope on Earth Rises Atop Hawaiian Volcano
Rising 10,000 feet above the sunburned faces of 2.2 million tourists a year, the largest solar telescope on the planet…
The Sun Blasts Out Two X-Class Flares, Strongest of the Year
The Sun gets active! On May 12, 2013, the Sun emitted what NASA called a “significant” solar flare, classified as…
“Bad Boy” Sunspot Unleashes Powerful X-Class Flare
The active region on the Sun that created all the hubbub and aurorae earlier this week put out one last…
Borexino Collaboration Detects pep Neutrinos
[/caption] Solar neutrino physics has quieted down over the past decade. In the past, it had been a source of…
Sun Celebrates Solstice With Flare (and a CME)
[/caption] Late in the evening on June 20, 2011 the Sun emitted a long lasting C7.7 class flare (a relatively…
Monster Prominence Erupts from Sun
Early this morning (June 7, 2011) an amazingly massive and spectacular event took place on the Sun; a huge prominence…
Comet Death-Dives into Active Sun
The SOHO spacecraft coronagraph captured a sun-diving comet on May 10th and 11th that met its demise as it plunged…
Earths Entire Star for the First Time on Super SUNday
[/caption] Super Bowl SUNday XLV marks a watershed moment in observing our Sun. Today, February 6, 2011, NASA’s twin STEREO…
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NASA Robot and First Whole Sun Picture .. Coming on Super Bowl SUNday
[/caption] What do NASA, Robots, the Sun and the NFL have in common ? Well … its Super SUNday ...…