Helio Highlights: October 2025 – NASA Science

With a clear night you can see thousands of stars in the sky. Most of these stars are dozens or hundreds of light years from us. A Light year This is the distance that the Ray of Light passes per year: about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers). This means that for these stars we see at night, he takes their light, which travels to about 186,000 miles per second (or about 300 thousand kilometers per second), tens or hundreds of years to contact us.

But in the daytime we see only one star: the sun. It dominates in the daytime sky, because it is so close – about 93 million miles (or 150 million kilometers). This distance is also called one Astronomical unitAnd his other unit of measurement that astronomers use to record the distance in space. But even if 1 astronomical unit seems long, it is still about 270 thousand times closer than Alpha CentauriaThe next nearest star system.

The sun is not just close – it is also a giant! The sun is large enough to tackle over a million lands inside and more mass than 330 thousand land Gather together. Its light also provides energy, which allows life, as we know it, to prosper. For these reasons, the Sun is a powerful presence in our lives. We all have relations with the Sun, so it is important that knowledge of this and the advantages and dangers of its presence.

Autumn is when most students in the United States return to the new academic year after the summer holidays. This time at the school offers a great opportunity to cover students, recently he is fond of several months of entertainment in the sun and capture their imagination with new information about how our native star works and how this affects their lives.

To this end, NASA makes efforts to teach and inform students and teachers about the sun, its features and how this affects our lives. NASA Heliophysics Educational team (Heat) teaches people of all ages to the sun, covering everything from how to safely consider the eclipse before soften the effects of geomagnetic storms.

This often means adaptation of lessons for teachers. Combining NASA scientists who study heliophysics with specialists in education, who align the material in accordance with the standards of the K-12 content, heat heliophysics from the laboratory to the class. The availability of Sun Science allows students to participate and is excited and excited by the discovery and instills thirst throughout life with knowledge that creates the next generation of scientists.

Since 2007 it is NASA Life with a star (LWS) Program and University Corporation for atmospheric research Cooperative programs for the development of science about the earthly system (Cpaess) cooperated to offer Heliophysics summer school Program for doctoral students and post -class scientists. This program is aimed at developing heliophysics as integrated science, teaching a new generation of researchers to participate in interdisciplinary communication, while they are in the early days of their career.

Within the framework of their efforts to increase awareness of the scientific and social importance of heliophysics and how to inspire future scientists and distort breakthroughs in heliophysics as discipline, nasa Heliophysics Educational team (NASA Heat) is working on a list of educational materials intended to participate in students with real missions.

My NASA dataIn cooperation with NASA, the hit released a new set of resources for teachers focused on space weather. My NASA data support the use of NASA authentic data in the framework of training materials in the classroom. These materials include lessons, mini-lessons (shorter participation events), interacting with students of web-interaction and a longer “history map”, which deepens the study of the phenomenon over several periods of the class.

These resources are designed to attract students to data and observations collected both in past and in current missions, including the European Space Agency Solar Orbital operatorNASA Parker Sunny probe And Sunny dynamics of the observatory (SDO) and much more.

One examples of this is the educational material published to support the autitzia, concentrated on 2023 and 2024, American solar eclipses. These materials allowed students to collect their own data on observations of the clouds and temperature during eclipses from Globe observer Eclipse tool. This gave them the opportunity to take part in the scientific process, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the Earth’s system and the global environment.

Groups such as heat do not just arouse interest in science for the inspiration of heliophysicists of the next generation. Just as amateur astronomers can bring much more data than their professional colleagues, Civil scientists It can do a lot to support the same institutions that could inspire them to accept the practice of civil science. This may mean that liba, from assistance in tracking solar spots to reports on the consequences of space weather phenomena.

These enthusiasts are also skillful in exchangeing the knowledge of heliophysics. Even only one person inspired to buy a telescope with Right sun filter (International ISO 12312-2), install it in the park and teach your neighbors about the Sun can do amazing work, and there are much more of them than there are professional scientists. This means that these amateur heliophysicists can achieve further than even the best official information.

Whether in the classroom, at conferences or in online lectures, the efforts of scientific communicators are a vital part of the work done in NASA. Just as scientists make new discoveries, these writers, teachers, audio and video producers and public work experts are enthusiastic about making these discoveries available to the public.

All this work helps to inspire scientists tomorrow and instill surprise with today's scientists -citizens. The sun is a constant and magnificent presence in our lives, and it offers many reasons for inspiration, both now and in the future.