NanoSail-D Stories

Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds
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Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images…
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NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun
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As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence…
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A Sunflower’s View of Totality
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The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show visible from Spain in August 2026.
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