NIST Assists in Solar Stake-Out to Improve Space Weather Forecasts (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NIST Assists in Solar Stake-Out to Improve Space Weather Forecasts

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With the aim of improving forecasts of space weather, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory will peer deep inside the sun, to where the solar magnetic field is generated. It also will keep tabs on how energy is released into the solar atmosphere and how the sun's output of extreme ultraviolet radiation varies.

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Credit: NASA, courtesy Ryan Zuber

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