Image: SDO views active region loops
An active region viewed in profile put on quite a show of erupting plasma and looping arches on Sept. 22-23, 2015.
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Parenting in the animal world: Turning off the infanticide instinct
Many bachelor mammals, including lions, mountain gorillas, monkeys, and mice, attack and kill the offspring of other males—a form of infanticide—yet display parental behavior once they themselves become fathers. Now, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2015
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Video: A golden arch on the sun
Magnetically charged particles formed a nicely symmetrical arch at the edge of the sun as they followed the magnetic field lines of an active region on Aug.4-5, 2015. Before long the arch begins to fade, but a fainter and ...
Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2015
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Grenada reports decreased activity at underwater volcano
An underwater volcano north of Grenada is showing a decline in seismic activity, authorities on the eastern Caribbean island said Saturday.
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2015
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Earth-directed CME lights the skies
Earth experienced a geomagnetic storm on June 22, 2015 due to the arrival of an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, from June 20.
Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2015
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SDO captures images of mid-level solar flares
The sun emitted two mid-level solar flares on March 9, 2015: The first peaked at 7:54 pm EDT and the second at 11:24 pm EDT.
Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2015
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Scientists map mouse genome's 'mission control centers'
When the mouse and human genomes were catalogued more than 10 years ago, an international team of researchers set out to understand and compare the "mission control centers" found throughout the large stretches of DNA flanking ...
Biotechnology
Nov 19, 2014
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SDO sees returning sunspot produce mid-level flare
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 12:48 p.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of ...
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2014
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Giant sunspot returns – and it's bigger and badder than ever
The largest sunspot seen in 24 years is rotating back to face the Earth, and it looks to have grown even bigger.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2014
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Sources of the solar wind
The solar chromosphere is the region between the Sun's surface and its hot, million-degree corona. Within this complex interface zone, only a few thousand kilometers deep, the density of the gas drops by a factor of about ...
Space Exploration
Nov 5, 2014
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