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A ‘bucket full of photons’ may yield clues about the Sun's magnetic fields
Scientists at NCAR designed and built one of the Inouye Solar Telescope’s five instruments: the Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP). This extremely versatile instrument can observe any wavelength across the visible spectrum of the Sun’s radiation, allowing scientists a huge degree of flexibility to explore.
- Sun + Space Weather
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Microsatellites to take never-before-seen look at the young solar wind
The PUNCH mission will fill the observational gaps to create a seamless view.
- Sun + Space Weather
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‘Terminators’ on the Sun trigger plasma tsunamis and the start of new solar cycles
In a pair of new papers, scientists paint a picture of how solar cycles suddenly die, potentially causing tsunamis of plasma to race through the Sun’s interior and trigger the birth of the next sunspot cycle only a few short weeks later.
- Sun + Space Weather
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Scientists to chase South American total eclipse with research aircraft
Scientists at NCAR and CfA follow South American eclipse in NSF/NCAR research aircraft.
- Sun + Space Weather
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Solar flares: From emergence to eruption
A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash.
- Sun + Space Weather