NASA spacecraft reveals how the solar wind is heated near the Sun

A spacecraft now moves through a region once thought unreachable, sampling the thin outer atmosphere of the Sun at distances no mission had managed be.
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What are solar storms and the solar wind? 3 astrophysicists explain how particles coming from the Sun interact with Earth

Yeimy J. Rivera receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the SAO/SWEAP subcontract 975569. Tatiana Niembro receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the ...
The Conversation

How wind and solar power help keep America’s farms alive

The Sustainably Co-locating Agricultural and Photovoltaic Electricity Systems (SCAPES) project, led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

Wind, solar power face a common foe — creative local governments

We calculated restrictions on wind and solar energy projects by looking at the restrictions states and counties imposed on their development.