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What If A Massive Solar Flare Hit Us?

The sun is great. The sun is our friend. The sun allows us to keep on living. Basically everything you know and love you can thank the sun for. But the sun is a fickle beast. We are entirely at the suns mercy, and sometimes, our fiery mate kicks off out there. Click here to see more videos: https:/

ScienceCasts: The Mystery of Coronal Heating

Observations by NASA's IRIS spacecraft suggest that "heat bombs" are going off in the sun's outer atmosphere, helping to explain why the solar corona is so mysteriously hot. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. https://iris.gsfc.nasa.gov/

ScienceCasts: NASA Spacecraft Fly in Record-setting Formation

MMS: http://www.nasa.gov/mms Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more Four NASA spacecraft have performed a thrilling maneuver to understand the physics of explosive reconnection in Earth's magnetosphere. Read this story: https://science.nasa.gov/news-articles/nasa-spacecraft-fly-record-setting-fo

Why Can't We Live On The Moon?

We could try living on the moon ... but it might not be a good idea. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin Follow Life Noggin! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LifeNoggin/?ref=br_rs Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifenoggin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifenoggin Offi

NASA ScienceCasts: The Space We Travel Through

As NASA prepares to send astronauts and spacecraft long distances through space, scientists are keeping an eye on the weather. Space weather. NASA Science: http://science.nasa.gov/ Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

ScienceCasts: Solar Minimum is Coming

Intense solar activity such as sunspots and solar flares subsides during solar minimum, but that doesn’t mean the sun becomes dull. Solar activity simply changes form. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.

The Dynamic Sun

In this video from NOVA’s Sun Lab, learn about the Sun’s ever-changing surface and magnetic field. Images and animations illustrate how the Sun’s magnetic field lines are affected by the motion of the Sun’s plasma. Over time, the magnetic field becomes twisted and more complex, which increases solar