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Understanding the Sun, Heliosphere, and Planetary Environments as a single connected system is a goal of the Heliophysics Research Program.

Venus Transit

See what NASA has planned for the Transit of Venus.

On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.

Spectacular images from the Hinode spacecraft show the solar eclipse, which darkened the sky in parts of the world yesterday.

Scientists compile data from IBEX, Voyager, and computer models to show that the heliosphere just isn't moving fast enough to create a bow shock.

A signature of lightning could be used to study atmospheres around other planets and shed light on how the solar system formed.

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Quiet Corona, Upper Transition region	Chromosphere, Transition region;	Composite	Magnetogram of Photosphere

RBSP Arrives at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes arrived May 1, 2012 at the KSC, where launch is scheduled for an August to begin their mission to study the extremes of space weather.
Goddard Collaborates on MMS Instrument

During the last week of March, 2012, researchers from Goddard, Marshall, SWRI and Japan came together to test a key instrument for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission.
ISWI: Global Space Weather Science

In 2009, a group of scientists at NASA Goddard had an idea to place science instruments all over the globe to encourage research and education in developing nations.
Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm

Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, a group of high school students in California knew just what to do; launch a rubber chicken.

Public Invited to Goddard Visitor Center For Transit of Venus

The public is invited to the Goddard Visitor Center for our Transit of Venus watch party and celebration that will include presentations, near real-time SDO images of the transit and other events.