NASA to Launch SNIFS, Sun’s Next Trailblazing Spectator July will see the launch of the groundbreaking Solar EruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph mission, or SNIFS. Delivered to space via a Black Brant IX sounding rocket, SNIFS will explore the energy and dynamics of the chromosphere, one of the most complex regions of the Sun’s atmosphere. The SNIFS mission’s launch window at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico opens on Friday, July 18.  The post NASA to Launch SNIFS, Sun’s Next Trailblazing Spectator first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun KEY POINTS On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events […] The post NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13. The atmospheric features SEED is studying are known as Sporadic-E layers, […] The post NASA Launching Rockets Into Radio-Disrupting Clouds first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60 Will the Sun ever burn out? Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It’s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen. Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventually, it will use up all of that hydrogen. But in the […] The post Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60 first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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Eclipses, Science, NASA Firsts: Heliophysics Big Year Highlights  One year ago today, a total solar eclipse swept across the United States. The event was a cornerstone moment in the Heliophysics Big Year, a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From October 2023 to December 2024 — a period encompassing two solar eclipses across the U.S., two […] The post Eclipses, Science, NASA Firsts: Heliophysics Big Year Highlights  first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Team Wins 2024 Collier Trophy The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar Probe mission has been awarded the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA). This annual award recognizes the […] The post NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Team Wins 2024 Collier Trophy first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral substorms affect the behavior and composition of Earth’s far upper atmosphere.  The experiment’s outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora’s interaction with the thermosphere. It may also improve space […] The post NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

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