News tagged with solar activity
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Kepler and the Search for Life in Our Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are so many stars in our galaxy that even if planets with complex life (animals and plants) are rare - say one for every billion stars - there could still be dozens here in the Milky ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Sunspots revealed in striking detail by supercomputers
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a breakthrough that will help scientists unlock mysteries of the Sun and its impacts on Earth, an international team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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Scientists: No link cloud coverage and global warming
With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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Watching solar activity muddle Earth's magnetic field
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found that extreme solar activity drastically compresses the magnetosphere and modifies the composition of ions in near-Earth space. They are now looking to model how these ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Apr 27, 2009 |
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New Sun-Watching Instrument to Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the Maunder Minimum, a period of diminished solar activity between 1645 and 1715, sunspots were rare on the face of the sun, sometimes disappearing entirely for months to years. At ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2009 |
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