Science Briefs and Reports S cience Briefs provide concise science background information, with subject headers and an on-line glossary, on the basic concepts and effects of space weather. Science Reports cover a large array of topics on space weather and the excitement of space weather missions.
Reports are more in-depth articles than science briefs.
A schematic of the sun, showing some of its major features. Courtesy of NASA . Click on the image for a larger version. An introduction to our closest star. A Great Magnet Earth's magnetic field extends far into space, where it blows and twists in the solar wind.