Alencia Hall awarded summer internship to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Mar 25, 2021
Honors Student Alencia Hall, a sophomore majoring in aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, part of The University of Alabama System, has been awarded a summer internship with Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics La...
Parker Solar Probe - Update on Switchbacks
Mar 09, 2021
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet. This ocean was spiked wi...
CSPAR’s James Adams elevated to senior member by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Mar 08, 2021
Dr. James Adams, a principal research scientist at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been elevated to senior member by the In...
Solar physicist proposes new mechanism for how electrons work in solar flares
Feb 08, 2021
A new mechanism to explain how electrons work in solar flares has been proposed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) solar physicist using a theoretical model of particle acceleration. ...
A Lucky Spacecraft Alignment Has Recorded a Huge, Evolving Solar Eruption
Jan 25, 2021
CSPAR scientists were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The Letter exploits joint observations of the same interplanetary coronal mass ejection by widely separated spacecraft to study, for the first time, the turbulent evolutio...
UAH scientists are part of first discovery of giant neutron star flare outside Milky Way
Jan 13, 2021
The first-time discovery of a giant flare from a neutron star that's outside Earth's galactic neighborhood is the subject of a new research paper in the journal Nature that has four co-authors from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a p...
Michael Terres wins NASA grant to study turbulence in solar plasma
Jan 13, 2021
UAH alumnus Michael Terres, a research assistant in the department of Space Science (SPA) with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been announced as the winner of a Future Investigators in ...
Are we alone in the universe? UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank doesn’t think so
Dec 14, 2020
Hello? Is there anybody out there? ...
Dr. Gary Zank Talks With WHNT News 19
Nov 23, 2020
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson to discuss several different subjects. See the interview here: https://whnt.com/news/leadership-perspectives/dr-gar...
New research solves Parker Solar Probe’s solar switchbacks surprise
Oct 27, 2020
In newly published research, scientists have for the first time modeled the nature of solar switchbacks – the large and long-duration isolated velocity spikes in the solar wind that surprised researchers when the first blast of data arrived from ...
