News tagged with space weather events

IBEX and TWINS join forces to observe a solar storm

(Phys.org) -- On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interacted ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth

A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Friday (Jan. 17, 2012), just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

NRL's SoloHI instrument selected for flight on solar orbiter mission

The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter mission as the ...

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies on Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said University of Colorado Boulder ...

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created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

STEREO Reveals the Anatomy of a Solar Storm in 3D

(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed scientists to reveal for the first time the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of solar explosions ...

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created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0