By Susannah Darling NASA Headquarters In 2012, Voyager 1 — one of a pair of deep-space probes launched in 1977 — crossed into a part of space no other spacecraft had ever seen: the interstellar medium. At over 11 billion miles from the Sun, several crucial changes were detected in the data Voyager 1 was …
By Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On Aug. 20, 2018, a Coronal Mass Ejection — an explosion of hot, electrically charged plasma erupting from the Sun — made its way towards Earth. By Aug. 26 it had hit — and aurora were visible as far south as Montana and Wisconsin in the United States. …
By Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center September 22, 2018 marked the 12th launch anniversary of Hinode — a solar observatory collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the European Space Agency, the United Kingdom Space Agency and NASA. Twelve years is long enough for Hinode to observe …
By Tom Mason Office of Communications and Outreach Manager Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder On Sept. 11, 2018, at approximately 6 a.m. local time in eastern South America, NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission sent back its very first image. Maps like …
