The "heliosphere" refers to a region (akin to a bubble) around the sun. This region actually encapsulates our entire solar system, and is formed as a result of solar wind particles streaming from ...

Scientists at NASA have found patterns which could help predict solar flares, the most common form of solar disturbances aka ...

Feltman: Mm-hmm. Bartels: And where the sun’s magnetism drops off. And that’s really important because we actually have no idea what shape the heliosphere is. Feltman: Mm. Bartels: It could be ...

and the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH, mission, which combines four small satellites orbiting Earth to study the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. Moreover ...

We develop numerical simulations of the Sun’s corona, the heliosphere and the Earth’s magnetosphere and make extensive use of measurements by the probes of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the ...