News tagged with intense solar flares
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 ...
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X-ray 'echoes' map a supermassive black hole's environs
(Phys.org) -- An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized ...
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The Sun's crowning glory
(Phys.org) -- Those who experience a total solar eclipse are overwhelmed as they look at the circle of light that surrounds our Sun. Laypeople may find it enchanting, but researchers have been racking their ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2012 |
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Beaming up on the way to space
(Phys.org) -- Space may be the final frontier. But often a few trips to PML are necessary before things can get off the ground. One recent case in point is the test of an instrument called the Extreme Ultraviolet ...
May 07, 2012 |
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Rubber chicken flies into solar radiation storm
Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Space weather forecast: Sunspotty, with an increasing chance of solar storms
(Phys.org) -- The past few months have seen a spate of solar flares – bringing spectacular views of the northern lights as far south as Seattle – along with media speculation that the electrical ...
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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Solar storm dumps gigawatts into Earth's upper atmosphere
A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth’s ...
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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Researchers take first-ever measurement of auroral turbulence using a nanosatellite radar receiver
Researchers from SRI International and the University of Michigan have taken the first-ever measurement of naturally occurring auroral turbulence recorded using a nanosatellite radar receiver. The research was done with support ...
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Space Image: Sunspots and solar flares
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an M7.9 class flare on March 13, 2012 at 1:29 p.m. EDT. It is shown here in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, a wavelength particularly ...
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Mar 21, 2012 |
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Storms from the sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space weather starts at the sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection ...
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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Sun releases a powerful X5 flare
Active Region 1429 unleashed an X5.4-class solar flare early this morning at 00:28 UT, as seen in this image by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (AIA 304). The eruption belched out a large coronal mass ...
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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