China launched the ASO-S satellite to research solar and space weather in what seems to be one of the most challenging space missions the country has developed. The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) satellite was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch ...
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 ...
Recent data show how millions of tons of extra-heated gas discharged from the Sun’s surface raced 90 million miles toward our planet. The phenomenon, dubbed coronal mass ejection, wasn’t that strong on the space-weather scale. However, the magnetic field awoke ...
Solar particles are directly released from the Sun at high speeds during storms in its outer atmosphere. The particles are also highly charged, and if they could reach our planet’s atmosphere, they can produce severe damage. Researchers have now succeeded ...