A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, … [+] carrying NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s DISSIPATION mission. The rocket launched into aurora and successfully captured data to understand how auroras heat the atmosphere and cause high-altitude winds. NASA/Lee Wingfield NASA has revealed that it fired a suborbital …
A NASA spacecraft captured incredible imagery as it flew through an eruption from the sun recently. Pictures beamed back to scientists on Earth even show the fiery ejection “vacuuming up” space dust left over from the formation of the solar system. The fly-through by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took place on September 5 and NASA …
Parker Solar Probe’s Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument captured the moment the … [+] spacecraft passed through a coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 5, 2022. getty NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft ever to fly through a coronal mass ejection from the sun—a powerful eruption of billions of tons …
Captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, this image showcases a solar flare that occurred on July 2, 2023. The flare, visible as a bright flash in the top right area of the Sun, emits intense ultraviolet light colored in teal, revealing the extremely hot material associated with flares. (Credit: NASA/SD) NASA/SDO The Sun unleashed a …