Auroras
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NASA-Supported Team Discovers Aurora-Like Radio Bursts Above Sunspot
A NASA-funded team of scientists has discovered long-lasting radio signals emanating from the Sun that are similar to those associated…
NASA’s Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a…
Rockets to Uncover Electric Circuit That Powers the Northern Lights
UPDATE Nov. 21, 2022: The two Aurora Current and Electrodynamics Structures II experimental rockets were launched on Nov. 20, 2022 at 6:20:00…
NASA Rocket Team to Chase Pulsating Aurora
UPDATE 3/5/2022: The LAMP mission launched at 2:27 a.m. AKST (6:27 a.m. EST) Saturday, Mar. 5, 2022, on a Black Brant…
Aurora-Chasing Citizen Scientists Help Discover A New Feature of STEVE
In 2018, a new aurora-like discovery struck the world. From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists reported 30 instances of a…
Everyday Effects of the Solar Cycle
On Sept. 15, scientists announced that the Sun has entered a new cycle, marked by solar minimum in December 2019.…
