Tag: ultraviolet
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Magnetic Avalanches on the Sun Reveal the Hidden Engine Powering Solar Flares
Unveiling the Sun’s Hidden Engine Astronomers have long wondered what fuels the Sun’s most dramatic eruptions. A new study suggests that giant solar flares arise not from a single violent event but from a cascade of tiny magnetic disturbances, or what researchers are calling magnetic avalanches. This chain reaction releases energy in a torrent of…
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Carruthers Observatory Shares Ultraviolet Views of Earth and Moon
Carruthers Observatory Announces First Ultraviolet Images The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, NASA’s newest ultraviolet-capable platform, has released its first images from space. The milestone marks the transition from assembly and testing to active science, with initial ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon that researchers say confirm the spacecraft and its instruments are operating as designed.…