News tagged with solar storm
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Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise
(AP) -- When the sun sneezes it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical standards, one ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 08, 2009 |
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Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.
Dec 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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Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some
The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Jupiter has lost one of its cloud stripes
(PhysOrg.com) -- New photographs of the gas giant Jupiter, the first taken on May 9, show the massive reddish band of clouds known as the Southern Equatorial Belt in the planet’s southern hemisphere has disappeared ...
May 14, 2010 |
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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.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between Sun and Earth for our atmosphere
Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a strong wind of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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How Low Can It Go? Sun Plunges into the Quietest Solar Minimum in a Century
(PhysOrg.com) -- The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 01, 2009 |
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As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather (w/ Video)
Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 09, 2010 |
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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.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2011 |
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New Solar Cycle Prediction: Fewer Sunspots, But Not Necessarily Less Activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of experts has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle, stating that Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. Led by ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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Missing sunspots: Solar mystery solved
The Sun has been in the news a lot lately because it's beginning to send out more flares and solar storms. Its recent turmoil is particularly newsworthy because the Sun was very quiet for an unusually long ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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