News tagged with mass ejections
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Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
A powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA said.
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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SDO celebrates one year anniversary
(PhysOrg.com) -- On February 11, 2010, at 10:23 in the morning, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched into space on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral. A year later, SDO has sent back millions ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2011 |
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New images show cloud exploding from Sun ripples like clouds on Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 04, 2011 |
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First large-Scale, physics-based space weather model transitions into operation
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into operation.
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Jan 26, 2011 |
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Sneak Attacks from the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Sun can be a menace when it sends out powerful solar blasts of radiation towards the Earth. Astronomers keenly watch the Sun to learn more about what powers these solar eruptions, in hopes ...
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Understanding coronal mass ejections
(PhysOrg.com) -- The corona of the sun is the hot (over a million kelvin), gaseous outer region of its atmosphere. The corona is threaded by intense magnetic fields that extend upwards from the surface in ...
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Oct 29, 2010 |
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Aurora alert: The Sun is waking up (w/ Video)
Sky viewers might get to enjoy some spectacular Northern Lights, or aurorae, tomorrow. After a long slumber, the Sun is waking up. Early Sunday morning, the Sun's surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 02, 2010 |
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STEREO Reveals the Anatomy of a Solar Storm in 3D
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed scientists to reveal for the first time the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of solar explosions ...
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Apr 28, 2009 |
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