News tagged with northern lights
Plasmas torn apart: Physicists make discovery that hints at origin of phenomena like solar flares
January saw the biggest solar storm since 2005, generating some of the most dazzling northern lights in recent memory.
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Was that Santa up there? No, Soyuz rocket debris
A ball of light streaking across the night sky in northern Europe on Saturday at a time when many imagined that Father Christmas was doing his rounds was nothing more than Soyuz rocket debris, Belgian experts ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011 |
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Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth
With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen gas. The ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A decade of studying the Earth's magnetic shield, in 3-D
Today (September 1), space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by 'Cluster', a mission that is illuminating the mysteries of the magnetosphere, the northern ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Getting ready for the next big solar storm
(PhysOrg.com) -- In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Northern Lights hit 100-year low point: Finnish researchers
The Northern Lights have petered out during the second half of this decade, becoming rarer than at any other time in more than a century, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Why does Sirius twinkle?
At this time of year, after dark we in the northern hemisphere are able to see the mighty constellation of Orion rise high in the sky with a very bright companion in a nearby constellation: Sirius – The ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Space tourism from Sweden to start in 2012
Short tourist flights into space are expected to begin launching from northern Sweden in 2012, one of the companies involved in the project said Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Canadian space agency beams northern lights over Web
Skywatchers can turn their gaze to a computer for a glimpse of the northern lights: the Canadian Space Agency on Monday launched an online observatory streaming the aurora borealis live over the Internet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Scientists launch rocket into aurora
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full sky shimmering in green aurora, Saturday night (Feb. 18, 2012) a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from the University of New Hampshire's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Solar storm not nearly as bad as could have been (Update 2)
Our high-tech world seems to have weathered a solar storm that was still showing signs of life late Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Northern lights take unusual trip down south
A baffling solar storm pulled colorful northern lights unusually far south, surprising space weather experts.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Solar storm expected to fire up northern lights
Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2012 |
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