Search For "the sun"
NASA sounding rocket finds helium structures in Sun's atmosphere
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], Aug 8 (ANI): Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists are not sure just how much there actually is in the Sun's atmosphere, where it is hard to measure.
Read More
The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): Solar activity varies in 11-year cycles. As the activity cycle switches to a new one, the Sun is usually very calm for several years.
Read More
NASA Sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 1 (ANI): Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's biggest flares from the last solar cycle, out of a set of nine.
Read More
United Breweries Limited and Inclusive India Foundation Provide Relief Kit
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 23 (ANI/BusinessWire India): On May 20, 2020, Amphan Super Cyclone caused widespread damage in West Bengal specifically in the Sundarbans area. Winds at the speed of 160 to 170 kilometres per hour, tore through the region causing devastating damage to the l
Read More
ESA/ NASA's Solar Orbiter returns first data, snaps closest pictures of Su
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 16 (ANI): The first images from ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission, are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun.
Read More
Swedish Institute of Space Physics to return to Venus on Indian Space Miss
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], July 2 (ANI): On board the Indian Venus mission Shukrayaan-1, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) will explore Venus for the second time. IRF's satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer (VNA) will study how the charged particles from the Sun interact with t
Read More
Motions in the Sun reveal inner workings of Sunspot cycle
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], June 26 (ANI): Solar activity fluctuates in a rhythm of about 11 years, which is reflected among other things in the frequency of sunspots. A complete magnetic period lasts 22 years. Scientists have long been puzzling over what causes this cycle.
Read More
X-rays from newborn star hint at sun's earliest days
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of the evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, may help answer some questions about the Sun and the solar system as the
Read More
Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Honolulu [Hawaii], June 5 (ANI): While the world has been dealing with the corona virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary spac
Read More
Scientists find new exoplanet-star pair having resemblance to Sun-Earth sy
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 4 (ANI): The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair, according to a team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Ge
Read More
Indian Scientists discover long-sought tiny explosions on the Sun
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 4 (ANI): A group of scientists working at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune, have recently discovered tiny flashes of radio light from all over the Sun.
Read More
Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
Read More