• Aurora

    1) Magnetotail Science and Aurora Viewing

    13 May 2013: HAO Scientist Michael Wiltberger attended the AGU Chapman Conference on Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails in Reykjavik, Iceland, March 10-15, 2013.
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  • NASA Gold

    2) NASA Selects GOLD and ICON Missions

    18 April 2013: NASA has selected two new satellite missions to be built as part of the Heliophysics Explorer Program. The projects will provide space observations to study Earth's ionosphere and thermosphere, and will launch in 2017.
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  • Alfvánic waves

    3) Waves Might Heat Solar Atmosphere

    3 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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  • Secrets of the Sun

    4) Secrets of the Sun

    25 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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  • FPI in Boulder

    5) Inauguration of the Boulder Fabry-Perot Interferometer Upper-atmosphere Wind Observation

    16 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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Current Images Of The Sun: These images represent data from Mauna Loa Solar Observatory instruments.
White Light Corona image
White Light Corona
(700-950 nm)
Hydrogen Alpha Disk image
Hydrogen Alpha Disk
(656.3 nm)
Helium I Line image
Helium I Line
(1083 nm)
Calcium II K Line image
Calcium II K Line
(393 nm)