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This article series for educators aims to engage learners of all ages with the exciting world of solar science. Our goal is to help educators inspire students by connecting informal and classroom learning to real NASA events, mission launches, and historic heliophysics milestones.

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Use these articles to inspire learners and find more resources that cultivate learning and engagement with heliophysics.

Use these articles to inspire learners and find more resources that cultivate learning and engagement with heliophysics.

Bring NASA into Your Classroom! The articles found below are organized by their year of release, with the most recent editions to the left and older editions to the right.

Bring NASA into Your Classroom! The articles found below are organized by their year of release, with the most recent editions to the left and older editions to the right.

Past topics offer diverse learning opportunities for students, including the application of heliophysics to Lunar missions like Artemis and Apollo and the relationship between studying comets and understanding the Sun.

Past topics offer diverse learning opportunities for students, including the application of heliophysics to Lunar missions like Artemis and Apollo and the relationship between studying comets and understanding the Sun.
April 2026

The Sun, Solar Wind, and Earth as a Connected System

This edition covers the PUNCH mission, which is designed to gain new insights into how the Sun's atmosphere, or corona, becomes the solar wind, how the solar wind develops as it traverses the inner heliosphere, and what impacts this evolving space weather has on the rest of the solar system.

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An image shows a circular view of the sky, colored gold, around the Sun. A black circular disk blocks the Sun at the center, but a small yellow circle shows the size and location of the Sun within the black disk. Near the top, a bulb-shaped cloud, a coronal mass ejection, extends upward from the Sun.
The Narrow Field Imager (NFI) camera, mounted on one of the four spacecraft of NASA’s PUNCH mission, imaged a large coronal mass ejection (CME) in exquisite detail on June 3, 2025. The CME can be seen rising in the center of the image, above the blocked-out Sun.
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Articles to Enhance Your Classroom

Browse NASA's heliophysics education articles exploring the Sun, space weather, and their effects on Earth and the solar system, featuring current science topics and a list of relevant classroom and event-ready resources.

An image shows a circular view of the sky, colored gold, around the Sun. A black circular disk blocks the Sun at the center, but a small yellow circle shows the size and location of the Sun within the black disk. Near the top, a bulb-shaped cloud, a coronal mass ejection, extends upward from the Sun.

The Sun, Solar Wind, and Earth as a Connected System

This article explains the PUNCH mission, which is studying the Sun and the heliosphere. Connected to educational resources that help K-12+ teachers explain concepts in simple, engaging ways for students. Published April 2026.

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At the center of the image is a comet that appears as a teardrop-shaped bluish cocoon of dust coming off the comet’s solid, icy nucleus and seen against a black background. The comet appears to be heading to the bottom left corner of the image. About a dozen short, light blue diagonal streaks are seen scattered across the image, which are from background stars that appeared to move during the exposure because the telescope was tracking the moving comet.

Comets, the Sun, and You.

This article shows educators how comets help us learn about the Sun and Space Weather. Connected to educational resources that help K-12+ teachers explain solar wind and space science concepts in simple, engaging ways for students. Published December 2025.

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A standing woman explains a hand-drawn arts and crafts version of the Sun to a classroom filled with seated people who are all turned to face her.

The Sun and Our Lives

This article explores the unique connections between heliophysics and our everyday lives. Connected to educational resources that help K-12+ teachers explain heliophysics education in simple, engaging ways for students. Published September 2025.

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An illustration of two astronauts working on the Moon

The Moon as a Laboratory

This article shows how studying the Sun can and has supported Lunar exploration. Connected to educational resources that help K-12+ teachers explain the link between Planetary Science and Heliophysics in simple, engaging ways for students. Published August 2025.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe - with its heat shield facing forward and twin solar panels partially extended - flies through particles in space.

Two Stars in Solar Science

This article explores how the Parker Solar Probe & Solar Orbiter work together to learn about the Sun. Connected to educational resources that help K-12+ teachers explain how space missions run by different nations can work together to tell us more about the Sun in simple, engaging ways for students. Published July 2025.

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A grayscale top-down image of the North Pole showing the glowing band of the Northern Lights circling the Earth

The Sun and the Light Shows It Creates

This article uses the May 2024 solar storms as a starting point to explain how the Sun causes auroras. Connected to educational resources that help K-12+ teachers explain this part of the Earth-Sun relationship in simple, engaging ways for students. Published July 2025.

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Framework for Heliophysics Education

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In this animated GIF, a small portion of the Sun appears green. A bright white flash suddenly appears on the edge of the Sun.
On Nov. 4, 2003, this solar flare saturated the X-ray detectors on several Sun-observing spacecraft.
NASA/ESA/SOHO