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Solar storms occur when highly-charged particles and plasma erupt from the Sun’s corona. Photo credit: NASA/SDO, with image processing by Dr Huw Morgan, Aberystwyth University.

Scientists to help forecast space weather threats

A Northumbria University solar physicist is part of a team of scientists working on a new project to improve the ability of the Met Office to forecast space weather and its potential disruption to activities on Earth.

Images taken by NASA's IRIS telescope have captured 'nanojets' within the Solar Corona

Reconnection Nanojets in the Solar Corona: a breakthrough shedding light on the mystery of the Sun’s million-degree atmosphere

A team of scientists has discovered new activity within the Sun’s atmosphere which could explain how it reaches temperatures of more than a million degrees.

A map of the coronal magnetic field strength superimposed on a coronal image taken by the AIA instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (Yang et al. 2020, Science).

Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time

An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, Newcastle, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona, for the first time.

The surface of the Sun, as revealed by the Inouye Solar Telescope. Credit: NSO/Aura/NSF

The Sun as we've never seen it before: clearest and most detailed images yet of the Sun revealed

The clearest and most detailed images of the Sun have been captured by the largest telescope in the world.

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