News tagged with flares
NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. ...
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Apr 21, 2010 |
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Russian sun probe lost: official
Russian scientists acknowledged Monday that solar research satellite Koronas-Foton has been lost due to technical problems, barely a year after its launch.
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Apr 19, 2010 |
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Proba-2 shows solar eruption that touched Earth (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Polar skies glowed with ghostly auroras last week during the biggest geomagnetic storm of 2010. The event owed its origin to a solar eruption a few days earlier -- revealed here in high-speed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Doomsday shelter currently selling bunker space (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- California-based company Vivos is providing you and about 4,000 other people the chance to survive the end of the world. The company plans to build a network of 20 shelters near most major ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Scientists find errors in hypothesis linking solar flares to global temperature
(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of climate science is nothing if not complex, where a host of variables interact with each other in intricate ways to produce various changes. Just like any other area of science, ...
Apr 07, 2010 |
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3D Sun for the iPhone
Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone. Users can ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2010 |
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Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission
For some years now, an unorthodox idea has been gaining favor among astronomers. It contradicts old teachings and unsettles thoughtful observers, especially climatologists.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 05, 2010 |
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CU-Boulder instrument package to study space weather set for NASA launch Feb. 9
A $32 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package set for launch Feb. 9 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the sun on near-Earth space weather that can affect satellites, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 04, 2010 |
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CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe 'Space Weather' Environment
(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 29, 2009 |
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C1XS success will provide new understanding of lunar surface
Over its ten months of operation, the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminium, silicon, calcium ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Solar Mystery Solved
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are amongst the most dangerous cosmic phenomena man has ever known. Though they pose no harm to humans, their effect on technology is vast. When they occur, they possess the capability ...
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Avalanche! The Incredible Data Stream of SDO
When NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) leaves Earth in November 2009 onboard an Atlas V rocket, the thunderous launch will trigger an avalanche.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Sunspots revealed in striking detail by supercomputers
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a breakthrough that will help scientists unlock mysteries of the Sun and its impacts on Earth, an international team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) ...
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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