Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

For more than a year, the largest space-based telescope ever built has been observing the far ends of the cosmos with unprecedented detail. The Webb Space Telescope could soon get a little extra help in the form of a miniature satellite the size of a toaster oven and equipped with extremely powerful vision.Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of CreationNASA recently selected the Monitoring Activity from Nearby sTars with uv Imaging and Spectroscopy (MANTIS) to assist Webb by observing the skies in the full range of…

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on January 9, 2023.Image: NASA/SDOEarth’s host star can be quite temperamental, compelling astronomers to launch satellites and probes on missions to keep a close watch of the Sun’s massive flares. But instruments pointed towards the Sun have a tendency to acquire cloudy vision as the result of a mysterious layer that’s puzzled scientists for years.Instruments on board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which has been observing the Sun since…