News and Articles About the Sun


Eclipses Yield First Images of Elusive Iron Line in Solar Corona   PhysOrg - January 4, 2010

Close-Up Photos of Dying Star Show Our Sun's Fate   Science Daily - December 17, 2009

Japanšs space agency is planning to construct a solar power station in space and use it to beam energy down to Earth using lasers   Telegraph.co.uk - November 11, 2009

Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots   PhysOrg - September 17, 2009

Centuries-old sketches solve sunspot mystery   New Scientist - July 30, 2009

Sunspots Revealed In Striking Detail By Supercomputers   Science Daily - June 22, 2009

Spectacular spectrum reveals Sun's chemistry   New Scientist - March 4, 2009

Strange Portal Connects Earth to Sun Live Science - November 3, 2008

Like giant, cosmic chutes between the Earth and sun, magnetic portals open up every eight minutes or so to connect our planet with its host star.

Sun's Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth? National Geographic - September 24, 2008
Solar wind blows at 50-year low BBC - September 24, 2008

Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection NASA - May 27, 2008

Visions of Sun's great 'belches' BBC - April 15, 2008

New Kink in Sun's Strange Corona Space.com - March 24, 2008

Sun's Magnetic Secret Revealed Space.com - January 22, 2008

New 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity is on the horizon National Geographic - January 9, 2008

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Sun's Mysterious Waves Found; May Be Solar Wind Source National Geographic - December 6, 2007

Mysterious Solar Ripples Detected For The First Time Space.com - September 1, 2007

Scientists Confirm Long-held Theory About Source Of Sunshine Science Daily - August 21, 2007
After 4.5 Billion Years, Sunshine Finally Figured Out Live Science - August 21, 2007

Global warming and cooling linked to the sunspot cycle New Scientist - August 14, 2007

Sun's "Ring of Fire" Stoked by Sound Waves National Geographic - May 31, 2007

Secrets of the Sun's sizzling corona News in Science - June 1, 2007

Harnessing the Power of the Sun SETI - April 20, 2007

A Massive Explosion on the Sun (Cool movie) NASA - April 24, 2007

First 3-D Images of Sun Unveiled National Geographic - April 24, 2007

The Sun in Three Dimensions NASA - April 24, 2007

New Phenomena on the Sun + Video NASA - March 22, 2007

A magnetic vortex almost as big as Earth
Telescope imaged million-degree gas spiraling up from sunspots MSNBC - March 22, 2007
Sun's magnetic field twisted and tangled News in Science - March 22, 2007

Forecast puts next Solar Max at 2012 NASA - March 2006

Uncharted Territory: New Glimpse of the Sun's South Pole Space.com - February 14, 2007

Sunspot 930 announced itself on Dec. 5th with one of the strongest flares in years--an X9, followed by an X6 on Dec. 6th, an X3 on Dec. 13th and an X1 on Dec. 14th. - Space Weather.com

A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun (Animation) NASA - December 13, 2006

Sunspot Penumbra Shock Astrophysicists Thunderbolts - April 18, 2006

Textbook theory of sunspot activity faces new difficulties posed by the magnetically confined structures of the penumbra. The old idea that the penumbra filaments are convection currents must now give way to new evidence that electric currents dominate these solar structures.

Solar Storm Warning NASA - March 10, 2006

This likens to the quiet before a storm. Researchers announced that a storm is coming - the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.
Solar Minimum has Arrived NASA - March 6, 2006

Sun's Changes to Blame for Part of Global Warming Live Science - October 1, 2005


NASA's Chandra Neon Discovery Solves Solar Paradox

Science Daily - July 29, 2005


Fast and Furious Solar Storm Shocks Earth and its Scientists
Space.com - May 24, 2005


Deep Roots Of Solar Wind Help Predict Space Weather Across Solar System
Science Daily - May 25, 2005


Solar Outbursts Protected Early Earth
Scientific American May 11, 2005

Heavenly signs that scared Roman rulers help astronomers study the Sun Astronomy Magazine - May 13, 2005


Inside the Sun: What Triggers Major Eruptions
Space.com


Solar 'Tadpoles' - Dark Shadows During Solar Flares - Explained
Space.com - March 2005

Solar Flares and Astronauts NASA - January 2005

On January 20th, 2005, a giant sunspot named "NOAA 720" exploded. The blast sparked an X-class solar flare, the most powerful kind, and hurled a billion-ton cloud of electrified gas (a "coronal mass ejection") into space. Solar protons accelerated to nearly light speed by the explosion reached the Earth-Moon system minutes after the flare the beginning of a days-long "proton storm."

Rare Solar Storms Bombard Spacecraft Space.com - January 2005

Solar Flare - Sunspots - January 22, 2005 - AFP

'Ultrasound' May Explain Solar Weather Mystery Scientific American - December 2004

The Sun Is More Active Now Than Over The Last 8000 Years Science Daily - November 2004

Coronal Mass Ejection Tracked to Saturn and Jupiter Space.com - November 2004

How Strongly Does The Sun Influence The Global Climate? Science Daily - August 2004

Natural Sunblock: Sun Dims in Strange Ways Space.com - August 2004

Sun Spikes: Solar Quakes Fuel Hot Tendrils Space.com - July 2004
The spikes of superheated gas, called plasma, are small compared to many of the Sun's prominent features, such as giant loops of magnetic energy that are flung many thousands of miles into the solar atmosphere.

Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high BBC - July 2004
A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years.

Speed limit found for solar storms Space.com - June 2004

Origins Revealed: Sun and Earth Born amid Chaos Space.com - May 2004

A Green Flash from the Sun NASA - April 2004

As the setting Sun disappears completely from view, a last glimmer appears startlingly green

Update on the massive explosion on the sun Nov. 2003 BBC - March 2004

Sun's Twin Found in Scorpio's Left Claw Space.com - January 2003

The solar twin is 18 Scorpii, located in the constellation Scorpio (The Scorpion), a mere 46 light-years from Earth. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year. In cosmic terms, this is quite close by.

Strange Lights Imaged, Astronauts Not Crazy Space.com - December 2003


The first direct images ever made of a solar storm as it engulfs Earth have also vindicated astronauts who said they'd seen colorful sky lights at dubiously high altitudes.

Cracks Let Solar Wind Disrupt Earth's Atmosphere Space.com - December 2003

Sun 'sheds its skin like a snake' BBC - November 2003

Astronomers have discovered a key fact required to understand the Sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Sunspots and flares on the Sun's surface follow the cycle, but expelled gas clouds do not. It seems that these ejections trail the sunspot peak - they peaked in 2002, two years after sunspots. The expelled gas takes away the Sun's old magnetic skin allowing a new one to emerge to start a new cycle.

Huge rock-ice body circles Sun BBC - November 2003

Three Sunspots Return, First Storm Enroute Space.com - November 2003
Every 11 years the Sun's magnetic field flips, but scientists don't know what triggers it. A new study shows that big eruptions of superheated gas, called coronal mass ejections, may play an important role.

Key Found to Why Sun's Magnetic Poles Flip Space.com - November 2003

Solar flare 'reproduced' in lab BBC - November 2003

Sun's close companion found BBC - February 2003



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