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.