News tagged with quiet sun
Our Sun: A Little Slow On the Uptake for Cycle 24
A very recent article carried by the BBC called, 'Quiet Sun Baffling Astronomers' sent me in a twitter of research activity. The BBC article's head notes include "The Sun is the Dimmest It Has Been for Nearly ...
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UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite
When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet period. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2012 |
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Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center
(Phys.org) -- As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions. ...
May 29, 2012 |
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Black hole caught red-handed in a stellar homicide
(Phys.org) -- Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
May 07, 2012 |
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Scientists watch black hole feast on unlucky star
Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ventured too close -- an event that occurs about once in 10,000 years, they reported on Wednesday.
May 02, 2012 |
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Square Kilometre Array site is already producing world-class astrophysics
CSIRO's Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), located in remote Western Australia, is the site proposed by Australia and New Zealand to host the high-density core of the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA), ...
Apr 17, 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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2012 |
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The lithium battery as a source of hope
The future belongs to electric vehicles – the experts are convinced of this. But there are a few challenges to overcome before quietly whirring electric cars can completely replace the combustion engine. One such challenge ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Cosmic rays alter chemistry of lunar ice
Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and multi-institutional colleagues report they have quantified levels of radiation on the moon's surface from galactic cosmic ray (GCR) bombardment that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Solar storm shakes Earth magnetic field
(AP) -- A solar storm shook the Earth's magnetic field early Friday, but scientists said they had no reports of any problems with electrical systems.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 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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