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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

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (37) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 10

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.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

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

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 12

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

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

New study links dust to increased glacier melting, ocean productivity

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led study shows a link between large dust storms on Iceland and glacial melting. The dust is both accelerating glacial melting ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth (Update 2)

The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Astronomers solve mystery of vanishing energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt

UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Part of sun turns into stormy 'benevolent monster'

(AP) -- After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Why Europe's climate faces a stormy future

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe is likely to be hit by more violent winter storms in the future. Now a new study into the effects of climate change has found out why.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Biggest solar storm since 2005 pummels Earth

A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said Monday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 8

Wave power can drive Sun's intense heat

A new study sheds light on why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is more than 20 times hotter than its surface. The research, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), may bring scientists a step closer ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world

A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward Earth Tuesday is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the gadget-happy modern world, experts say.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12

Scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth

With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen gas. The ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Storm

A storm (from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz "noise, tumult") is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation, such as ice (ice storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, hailstorm, etc).

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