Sentences with word «heliophysics»

NASA Living With a Star, Heliophysics Division sponsors this program.

But, speaking of heliophysics forecasting techniques in general, he cautioned against leaping to any conclusions based on small - number statistics.

Funded by NASA and managed by UCAR, the first Heliophysics Summer School was convened in July 2007.

«All missions on board for NASA heliophysics research.»

These fellowships provide the support they need to continue their studies as heliophysics post-docs at leading Universities.

With all that information, scientists think that the observatory could do for heliophysics what the Hubble Space Telescope has done for astrophysics in general.

NASA's Heliophysics Program would be flat - funded from FY 2017, whereas Astrophysics would see a total 8.9 percent increase to fund the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), among other missions.

On Monday, Aug. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., guests are invited to join the Museum of Life and Science for a deeper look at the science behind the eclipse with hands - on activities exploring heliophysics, the study of the sun and a solarscope viewing party during the eclipse peak.

The way reconnection disturbs terrestrial power grids is complex but, in essence, the process mimics what happens in electric generators, where a fluctuating magnetic field (usually a moving magnet) produces a current in a coil of wire, says Adam Szabo, director of NASA's Heliophysics Laboratory.

The agency's earth science programs will receive flat funding at $ 1.9 billion, while heliophysics gets an increase of 1.5 %, to $ 688 million.

The four NASA missions used in this study are a part of NASA's Heliophysics fleet of missions under NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes, Living with a Star and Explorers programs, which aim to understand fundamental plasma physics questions and the dynamic Earth - Sun environment we live in.

The overarching goal is to share techniques across disciplines and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration on outstanding heliophysics questions.

Bradshaw used a sophisticated computational model to demonstrate why spotting signatures of the nanoflares has been so difficult and how the new evidence will help researchers go forward to improve theories on the details of coronal heating - one day allowing heliophysics researchers to at last solve the coronal heating mystery.

The Community of Practice provides professional development opportunities for middle and high school teachers across the country to learn more about current heliophysics research and incorporate it into their classroom.

The group's research focus is on high energy heliophysics with emphasis on multi-wavelength observations and modeling of solar eruptions and their effects on the solar atmosphere.

«Caterpillars enter the cocoon of the Summer School and emerge as beautiful Heliophysics butterflies.

Heliophysics breaks down these barriers — and many others.

Heliophysics plays out on scales ranging from the fusion of subatomic particles taking place in the heart of the sun to the grand sweep of magnetic storms that can engulf entire planets.

«We've created a whole heliophysics life cycle,» says Guhathakurta.

Since the goal of this postdoctoral program is to train Sun - Earth system researchers, preference is also given to research projects that cross the traditional Heliophysics subdomains of the Sun, heliosphere, magnetosphere, and ionosphere / upper atmosphere, as well as Sun - climate investigations.

This year, academicians around the world are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the «Heliophysics Summer School,» a fresh - faced academy that introduces the next generation of scientists to a field of study that, arguably, didn't even exist when the new millennium began.

This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known as heliophysics.

Support for the work came from a NASA Jack Eddy postdoctoral fellowship for Dong through the Princeton Center for Heliophysics, led by Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee, head of the PPPL Theory Department who serves as Dong's postdoctoral advisor, and the Max Planck - Princeton Research Center for Plasma Physics, jointly financed by the DOE Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

A very important part of heliophysics is made up of the structures that result when the pull of gravity and the push of magnetism compete.»

Within the directorate, funding for planetary science, astrophysics and heliophysics would increase, while Earth science would take a slight hit.

Heliophysics would get $ 691 million, a 2 % increase.

asks solar physicist Madhulika Guhathakurta, spokesperson for NASA's Heliophysics Division.

But one scientist familiar with the pick says that NASA - funded scientists who work outside astronomy — in Earth science, planetary science and heliophysics — could question Grunsfeld's leadership.

NICER is an Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity within NASA's Explorers program, which provides frequent flight opportunities for world - class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas.

And the agency's two Heliophysics spacecraft, Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) and Solar and Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO), also will image the comet.

«We've seen a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds going to the earth sciences program at the expense of funding for exploration and space operations, planetary sciences, heliophysics, and astrophysics, which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to NASA's core mission,» Cruz said at yesterday's hearing on NASA's 2016 budget request.

This research showcases how NASA heliophysics missions — heliophysics being the study of the nature of charged particles and energy in space, as well as how they are affected by the Sun — can work together.

Astrophysics and heliophysics would also see modest increases of $ 36 million and $ 14 million, respectively.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the twin Voyager spacecraft and operates them for the Heliophysics Division within NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Within the four science divisions — earth science, astrophysics, planetary science, and heliophysics — earth science appears to be the big winner.

The research was done as part of NASA's Planetary Science Astrobiology program through the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) program, which seeks to accelerate the search for life on planets orbiting other stars, or exoplanets, by combining insights from the fields of astrophysics, planetary science, heliophysics, and Earth science.

He added that since President Obama entered office, there has been a «disproportionate increase» in funding for Nasa's earth science programme, which has come at the expense of space exploration as well as planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics.