The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the ...

The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, ...

The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the ...

Today, she serves as the project scientist of a NASA mission to investigate the sun's particles and map their energy across the entire heliosphere, which is the region of space affected by the ...

The sun’s magnetic field, which travels with the solar wind, also influences the space between planets. The heliosphere grows and shrinks in response to changes in the sun’s activity levels ...

PUNCH, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, will study how the sun affects the solar system. The mission will observe the sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona ...

During its two-year mission, the four satellites of PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, to determine how it transitions ...

The sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the ...

Sarah A. Spitzer works as a research fellow for the University of Michigan department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. She receives funding from the the University of Michigan and ...