NIST Ultraviolet Source Helps NASA Spacecraft Measure the Origins of Space Weather

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 16:35 in Astronomy & Space

With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a NIST physicist helped NASA scientists successfully position a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne instrument to observe a 'hidden' layer of the Sun where violent space weather can originate.

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