Sun
Get complete information on Sun a yellow dwarf star facts, sun planet news, images of sun impact on planets. Know about NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, variability and climate effect, mystery of the sun’s hot atmosphere, Dark sunspots or Black Spots and Solar Wind on the Sun and more. The solar corona on Sun where extreme events on the Sun occurs like coronal mass ejections or solar flares which further creates the space weather.
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Aug 23, 2004The Genesis spacecraft spent 27 months collecting atoms from the solar wind as they streamed off the Sun's corona. When the Genesis sample capsule comes hurtling back to Earth on September 8, helicopter pilots will be waiting to grab it out of the sky. -
Aug 20, 2004The Genesis mission will end September 8th, after capturing the first extraterrestrial samples to be returned since Apollo. The spacecraft has stowed pristine solar wind to help scientists search back in the planetary timeline.
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Mar 18, 2004Last November solar observers witnessed the largest solar flare ever observed. This month, the orbiting solar observatory snapped a spectacular image of the Sun ejecting an eruptive prominence, a relatively cooler gas ejection that stretched more than fifty Earth diameters and moved at 45,000 miles
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Mar 18, 2004Last November solar observers witnessed the largest solar flare ever observed. This month, the orbiting solar observatory snapped a spectacular image of the Sun ejecting an eruptive prominence, a relatively cooler gas ejection that stretched more than fifty Earth diameters and moved at 45,000 miles
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Jul 22, 2003A great mystery about our own star is why its atmosphere is hotter than its surface. By studying microflares, solar physicists believe some of this energy is coming from the smaller but more frequent explosions on our typical dwarf star.
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Jul 6, 2003Scientists using the main solar observatory, SOHO, have been troubleshooting a locked antenna for weeks. If not solved, about a third of the year, the prediction of solar storms would be pushed back to a pre-1980's situation.
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Feb 21, 2003Using tracking from automated telescopes, solar physicists captured the Sun's fiery greeting to a close-passing comet called NEAT. Initially thought to be a newly formed comet, NEAT turns out to have last visited the inner solar system 37,000 years ago.
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