New research links a particular magnetic structure on the Sun with the genesis of powerful ... section head in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s division of atmospheric sciences, which ...

A twist on the sun is throwing solar scientists for ... The debate boils down to whether ropes form before or during CMEs. Science News sponsorship position. The first hypothesis gained credence ...

The cells are important to understanding the sun's weather and could scientists better understand where sunspots form. The research team now hopes to observe how magnetic fields respond to flows ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure ... is to the sun - so close that it completes an orbit in 1.3 days.

"One theory is if there's true rotation in there, this may trigger or destabilize the whole structure, which may contribute to this eruption," said Wedemeyer. The sun is getting more active We're ...

Today's weather forecast on the sun calls for a high of 10,000 degrees ... Brandon is the space/physics editor at Live Science. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest ...

Harvard/WorldWide Telescope Astronomers have discovered that many of the star-forming regions we see in the sky actually seem to form an undulating, 8,800-light-year-long wave containing 3 million ...

Scientists knew a bit about the structure ... in an email to Live Science, referring to the COR2 instrument aboard NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft, which orbits the sun between Earth and Venus.