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.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights

(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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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

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights

A storm from the broiling sun turned the chilly northernmost skies of Earth into an ever-changing and awe-provoking art show of northern lights on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

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

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

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

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

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

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather

The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

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

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Northern Lights dance over northern England

(AP) -- The Northern Lights have lit up the skies above Scotland, northern England and northern parts of Ireland after the biggest solar storm in more than six years bombarded Earth with radiation.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0