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Staff News: HAO eclipse team in Australia! A persistent overcast had a group of HAO staff biting their nails just after dawn on November 14. Stationed on a beach at Palm Cove, Queensland, they were ready to test their ambitious vision of creating unprecedented, crowdsourced footage of an eclipse—but it wasn't clear that the weather would cooperate. Read More »
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1) Waves Might Heat Solar Atmosphere3 July 2012:
A team of astronomers, including
Scott McIntosh, discovered Alfvénic waves permeate both the corona and the transition zone between the corona and the chromosphere. (Photo courtesy NASA.)
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2) Secrets of the Sun25 April 2012:
Our own Sarah Gibson and Scott McIntosh are among the solar researchers featured in a episode of the PBS series NOVA. "Secrets of the Sun".
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3) Inauguration of the Boulder Fabry-Perot Interferometer upper-atmosphere wind observation16 March 2012:
A Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) was installed at NCAR Marshall Field, just to the south-east of Boulder, to observe thermospheric and mesospheric winds.
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4) Tying the Sun together6 February 2012:
HAO solar science is featured in a article on NCAR/UCAR "AtmosNews". The article profiles the efforts to study and connect the solar dynamo and magnetic flux emergence by Mark Miesch and colleagues.
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5) Identifying the Beginnings and Ends of Solar Cycles4 January 2012:
HAO scientist's Mausumi Dikpati, Peter Gilman, Giuliana de Toma, and UCLA professor Roger Ulrich find that the latitude at which plasma sinking occurs is very important.
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