Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums. From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a ...

Beneath the Sun's outer shell, a layer of highly ionized, boiling hot gas flows all the way down to 200,000 kilometers below the surface of the star. Temperatures of this plasma can reach up to 45,000 ...

A helioseismology study maps the flow of plasma inside the Sun and supports a model that also explains the sunspot cycle. The results of a new helioseismology study suggest that the Sun’s meridional ...

Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums. From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a ...

Helioseismology was used to measure the Sun's meridional flow (in miles per hour). This flow controls the evolution of the global magnetic field and the number of sunspots. This material relates to a ...

Most of the time, weather forecasters focus on the placement of atmospheric troughs, which bring colder weather, and ridges, which warm us up. But what about the weather in-between? When there aren't ...

Some climate models suggest that the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide will result in a slowdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation 5. Coupled climate model runs that had the ...