Sun

Physicists spot a new class of neutrinos from the sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 29, 2020
The Borexino experiment detected particles from our star’s second-most important fusion process

By David Aragorn
Sun unleashes biggest flare since 2017. Is our star waking up?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 29, 2020
It’s too soon to tell if we’re already in Solar Cycle 25.

By David Aragorn
The sun is less active than similar stars. That’s good news 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2020
The sun appears to be far less active than similar stars in terms of brightness variations caused by sunspots and other phenomena – a “boring” personality, according to scientists, that may not be a bad thing for us Earthlings.

By David Aragorn
Fine threads of million-degree plasma revealed in sharpest-ever images of sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2020
The sharpest-ever photos of the sun, captured by NASA’s High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Hi-C, have revealed the fine magnetic threads of super heated plasma that make up the sun’s outer layer.

By David Aragorn
Solar probe embarks on unprecedented mission to map sun’s polar regions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2020
A new probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency set off on a blazing hot journey to the sun on Sunday to take the first close-up look at the star’s polar regions, a mission expected to yield insight into how solar radiant energy affects Earth.

By David Aragorn
Solar Orbiter: ESA, NASA Successfully Launch New Mission to Study Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 11, 2020
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study our Sun, launched at 05:03 CET on February 10, 2020 (11:03 p.m. EST on February 9) on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At 06:03 CET (12:24 a.m. EST), mission controllers at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal from the spacecraft indicating that its solar panels had successfully deployed. In the first two days after launch, Solar Orbiter will deploy its instrument boom and several antennas that will communicate with Earth and gather scientific data.

By David Aragorn
Solar Orbiter spacecraft will capture the sun’s north and south poles 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2020
Scientists hope the telescope will capture the imagination like ‘science fiction’

By David Aragorn
Highest-Resolution Solar Telescope Ever Released Incredible First Images of the Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2020
This image is the first high-resolution shot from the 4-meter Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai’i.

By David Aragorn
SUNSPOTS BREAK A SPACE AGE RECORD 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2019
Solar Minimum is becoming very deep indeed.

By David Aragorn
A Summer without Sunspots 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2019
Could northern summer 2019 go down in history as “the summer without sunspots”?

By David Aragorn