News tagged with solar terrestrial activity

Evidence of new solar activity from observations of aurora in New Zealand

Scientists from Boston University's Center for Space Physics (CSP) announced that they have sub-visual evidence of the onset of a new cycle of solar-terrestrial activity. The key results being reported deal ...

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created Aug 13, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Professor: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eventually, the day will come when life on Earth ends. Whether that’s tomorrow or five billion years from now, whether by nuclear war, climate change, or the Sun burning up its fuel, the last ...

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created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (49) | comments 114 | with audio podcast report




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Science nugget: Catching solar particles infiltrating Earth's atmosphere

(Phys.org) -- On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached Earth about 20 minutes after ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

GREGOR telescope: Zooming in on the sun

(Phys.org) -- Nighttime is the astronomer’s day. After all, anyone wishing to see the stars must wait until it is dark. There is one exception to this rule, however: the sun. Close up, it can be used ...

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created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

SDO and STEREO spacecrafts spot something new on the Sun (w/ video)

(Phys.org) -- One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does – look through the daily images of the sun from ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA's proposed 'InSight' lander would peer to the center of Mars in 2016

A Phoenix-like lander that would mine the deepest hole yet into Mars- to a depth of 5 meters – and unveil the nature of the mysterious deep interior and central core of the Red Planet is under consideration ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Earth siblings can be different: Chemical clues on the formation of planetary systems

An international team of researchers, with the participation of IAC astronomers, has discovered that the chemical structure of Earth-like planets can be very different from the bulk composition of the Earth. ...

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA small explorer mission celebrates ten years and forty thousand X-ray flares

(PhysOrg.com) -- On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within months as the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ...

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Space Weather Center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability

Improved Forecasting to Coincide with Peak in Solar Activity

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created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

I thought I saw A UFO! Mystery triangle on STEREO image explained...

The STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a two-year mission conducted by NASA. It employs nearly identical twin telescopes – one positioned ahead of Earth’s orbit and the other behind ...

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created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Is Vesta the 'smallest terrestrial planet?'

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta – and may have found a planet.

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created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

ESA's space weather station Proba-2 tracks stormy sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers gathered for European Space Weather Week have been presented with the latest results from ESA’s own space weather station: the Proba-2 microsatellite.

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created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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