NIST ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 12:14
in Astronomy & Space
With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology 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.