A fantastic image shows a million-mile-long plume emerging from the Sun, and it’s like nothing you’ve seen before. Professional astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy took the incredible picture. According to the astrophotographer, the blazing filament, also known as a coronal mass ejection ...
Given how vulnerable our atmosphere and climate are to solar activity, these ice cores also serve as a record of solar activity. In a recent investigation of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team headed by Lund University ...
The NASA TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission just discovered something significant: our own sun is remarkably well-behaved in comparison to its counterparts elsewhere in the cosmos. (Image courtesy of NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory and Getty Images.) According to Universe Today, ...
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, using data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, provides new insight into what causes and accelerates the solar wind, which is a stream of charged particles emitted from ...