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Our Gorgeous, Graceful, Gradient Sun

October 18, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Here’s a mesmerizing video from the folks over at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s visualization studio showing the Sun in a whole new light… well, a reprocessed light anyway. Using what’s called a gradient filter, images of the Sun can be [...]

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HI-C Returns Most Detailed Images Ever of the Sun’s Corona

July 23, 2012

NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) mission, launched Wednesday, July 11 from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, successfully returned (as promised!) the highest-resolution images of the Sun’s corona ever acquired. These images of the dynamic million-degree region of the Sun’s atmosphere will provide scientists with more information on the complex activity found near the [...]

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NASA To Launch The Finest Mirrors Ever Made

July 9, 2012

This Wednesday NASA will launch its High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) mission from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, sending a sounding rocket above the atmosphere with some of the best mirrors ever made to capture incredibly-detailed ultraviolet images of our Sun. Remove this ad

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How Big Was Monday’s CME?

April 19, 2012

This big! The M1.7-class flare that erupted from active region 1461 on Monday, April 16 let loose an enormous coronal mass ejection many, many times the size of Earth, making this particular writer very happy that our planet was safely tucked out of aim at the time… and 93 million miles away. Remove this ad

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Huge Coronal Hole Is Sending Solar Wind Our Way

March 13, 2012

An enormous triangular hole in the Sun’s corona was captured earlier today by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above from the AIA 211 imaging assembly. This gap in the Sun’s atmosphere is allowing more charged solar particles to stream out into the Solar System… and toward Earth as well. Remove this ad

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