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17 paź 2024 · Brace yourselves, Earthlings: NASA, the NOAA, and the Solar Cycle Prediction Panel have officially declared that solar maximum is now underway. What does that mean? Our Sun is reaching the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, a time when sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections are rampant.
With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar system. However, the fleet’s constant watch and often-unique perspectives sometimes create opportunities to make discoveries that no one expected, helping us to solve…
The connection and interactions between the Sun and Earth drive the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation belts and auroras. Though it is special to us, there are billions of stars like our Sun scattered across the Milky Way galaxy.
1 dzień temu · The sun cycles between periods of low and high activity over 11 years. The maximum can bring stunning light displays and offer NASA scientists unique research opportunities.
1 dzień temu · Today’s top story: The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which serves as the world’s source for observing and studying the sun, will be unavailable until 2025 due to unexpected...
14 gru 2021 · For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science.