Secrets of The Sun
New observations from IRIS (The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograp ), are helping us gain critical data about how heat travels from the Sun’s core to its various destinations in our solar system. IRIS is designed...
Category: The Sun
The Sun’s Magnetic Field is About to Flip
Observations show that the sun’s global magnetic field is about to flip, a sign that Solar Max has arrived. This happens about every eleven years. The Suns electromagnetic influence, the current sheet, extends to the outer...
The Sun’s Evil Twin
The Nemesis theory postulates that there is a star orbiting the Sun every 26 million years. As trhis star nears the Sun its gravitational disturbances sends comets flying through the Solar System and one...
The End Days
What will happen to Earth when the Sun is about to die? 5 billion years from now the Sun will run out of fuel and swell to emcompass the inner planets. The Swelling will...
First X-Class Solar Flares of 2013 – NASA
On May 12-13 the Sun erupted with an X1.7-class and an X2.8-class flare as well as two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to...
Heliophysics Fleet Captures May 1, 2013 Prominence Eruption – NASA
Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An active region just around the East limb (left edge) of the sun erupted with a huge cloud of solar material — a heated,...
UN Prepares For Coming Solar Storms – NASA
Solar storms, although launched 93 million miles away, can damage satellites and knock out power grids here on Earth. This is due to our reliance on sensitive electronics and components. Solar Energetic particles ripple...
Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Amazing pictures of the Sun showing powerful solar flare exploding on the sun’s lower right hand limb, sending out light and radiation, followed by a...
Ring-shaped Prominence Erupts from Sun
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A coronal mass ejection on 31st January 2013 was accompanied by a large eruption as can be seen in this amazing video. The images...
Age Old Sun Mystery Solved
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Why is the temperature of solar flares so much hotter than the surface of the Sun? This is an age old problem that has...
Sun Spot Cycles
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting introduction to the Sun Spot Cycle which is expected to peak in the next year or so. Sun Spots are caused by intense...
Full 360 view Of The Sun
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting information on STEREO, the two Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft, that allow a full 360 degree view of the Sun. The two spacecraft...
Sungrazing Comets
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting information on Sungrazing comets, the Kreutz path, and why before 1979, there were less than a dozen known Sungrazing comets and as of...
Comets Help Explore the Sun’s Atmosphere
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Comet Lovejoy swept right through the sun’s corona with its long tail streaming behind it in December 2011. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images...
The Origin Of Light
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Space imagery from NASA’s Conceptual Image Lab follow the life of a photon. The fusion process in the Sun which naturally occurs when two...
Blue-Flame Plasma On The Sun
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – This video applies additional processing to the images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and enhances them. The result is a beautiful and awe inspiring...
