Blogs Posts in Solar Physics category; 67 blog posts

Will the Earth's Wandering Magnetic Poles Cause Deadly Super...

Will the wandering magnetic North Pole create crazy superstorms? The eye-popping connection between the planet's weather and its magnetic field has caught hold among scaremongers recently, ever since scientists described the potentia [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Stellar success for Queen's solar stars

Astrophysicists from Queen's University have captured an unprecedented close-up image of the Sun's fiery atmosphere - and, in so doing, have won a major new global award. 'The Solar Cauldron', photographed by Dr David Jes [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Solar Observation Mission Celebrates 15 Years

Fifteen years later, SOHO has revolutionized what we know about the solar atmosphere and violent solar storms produced by the sun. SOHO has become an expert comet-hunter, nightly news leader and a workhorse that helped create the field o [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

CU-NASA Research Center to Study Sun's Effects on Earth's Cl...

The University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the formation of a new collaborative research center dedicated to the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Harmful effects of a solar eclipse on your health?

There is no evidence that eclipses have any physical effect on humans. However, eclipses have always been capable of producing profound psychological effects. For millenia, solar eclipses have been interpreted as portents of doom by virt [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Sun's Impact on Climate Change Overestimated?

A decline in the sun's activity can actually lead to a warmer Earth—not a cooler one as previously suspected, according to a new study. The sun is currently at a low point in its 11-year solar cycle, when the sun's tot [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Knot in Mystery Ribbon at Solar System's Edge Unravels

The unraveling of a knot in a mysterious energy ribbon shows that the edge of our solar system is a much more dynamic place than previously thought, according to new research. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft has [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Astronomers Detect Most Distant Cosmic Object

Astronomers have discovered evidence of the oldest and most distant cosmic event ever detected, a burst from a dying star that occurred 13 billion years ago, very soon after the birth of the universe. Scientists hope the discovery of the an [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Coronal Modeling With Realistic Energy Transport

Models of the solar corona typically simplify the energy equation by neglecting important energy transport processes. These "polytropic" models are useful but also have significant limitations. Through scientific and technical adv [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Jupiter, solar system's 'big bully,' takes a punch

Astronomers have been turning the world's most powerful telescopes toward Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, ever since Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered a new dark marking on the planet, apparently the scar f [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Make the Solar System in Tappan

The Astronomy club and Physics department are looking for student artists who would like to help build a scale model of the Solar system. These to-scale models will be set up on Tappan Square during Commencement Week. If you’re inte [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Watching Solar Activity Muddle Earth's Magnetic Field

Scientists have found that extreme solar activity drastically compresses the magnetosphere and modifies the composition of ions in near-Earth space. They are now looking to model how these changes affect orbiting satellites, including the G [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Scientists gets a look at Mercury's interior

Meteors that smashed into the planet Mercury 3.9 billion years ago are giving scientists a glimpse deep into the tiny planet's interior and providing clues to how it has evolved in the eons since. The 430-mile-wide Rembrandt impact basin, f [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

A touch of solar beauty spices up a slow week...

There's always something exciting or beautiful happening in space. Here we are, minding our own business in the midst of a slow news week...The space shuttle Discovery's launch was delayed for safety reasons again (yikes, for the fifth ti [...]