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Solar Jet Hunter is Back, with New Data and New Features!
NASA’s Solar Jet Hunter project invites you to help find solar jets, ejections of matter from the Sun. The project was on hold for a few months as the science team worked behind the scenes. It’s re-launching now with new data from…
Calling all Eclipse Enthusiasts: Become a NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador!
By Vivian White, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Are you an astronomy enthusiast or undergraduate student with a passion for sharing space science? We are excited to share with you a wonderful opportunity to become an official NASA Partner Eclipse…
One Year of Spritacular Science!
Sprites, those beguiling electrical flashes of light above thunderstorms, raise so many questions: Why do they take the shapes they do? What conditions in the upper atmosphere trigger them? How do sprites affect Earth’s global electric circuit, and what is…
AWE Launching to Space Station to Study Atmospheric Waves via Airglow
NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in November 2023, where it will make use of a natural, ethereal glow in Earth’s sky to study waves in our planet’s atmosphere. Built…
NASA’s Scientists and Volunteers Tackle the October 14 Solar Eclipse
Did you see October 14th’s solar eclipse? Most of the time we can easily forget that we are on a planet spinning and orbiting in space with other celestial bodies. Watching the Moon move across the face of the Sun…
Radio JOVE 2023 Solar Eclipse Observations
NASA’s Radio JOVE project wants your help to study the Sun! Radio JOVE, in partnership with the SunRISE Ground Radio Lab, is planning to use radio telescopes to make coordinated observations of the Sun for the 2024 solar eclipse. With our plans…
Tracing the Origin and Energization of Plasma in the Heliosphere
PROJECT: Solar Wind Pickup Ion Composition Energy Spectrometer (SPICES) SNAPSHOT: SPICES is a new sensor that will help scientists discover where matter originates and how it is energized throughout the solar system Imagine that you have a secret decoder ring…
Know Python? Or have a DSLR Camera? The Eclipse Megamovie needs your help!
NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project is back for the 2024 total solar eclipse – and is seeking volunteers! During the four minutes of this solar experience, the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, will become visible. It’s a rare time when we are…
To Study Atmosphere, NASA Rockets Will Fly into Oct. Eclipse’s Shadow
UPDATE: The three rockets comprising the APEP mission launched on Saturday, Oct. 14th at 10:00am, 10:35am, and 11:10am MT from White Sands Missile Range, and reached altitudes of 216 miles, 219 miles, and 218 miles (348 kilometers, 353 kilometers, and…
2 New Eclipse Projects Receive NASA Funding
Ahead of the total solar eclipse crossing North America on April 8, 2024, NASA has funded two more proposals that will use the eclipse to advance science while engaging the public. The new projects were awarded via NASA’s Heliophysics Innovation…