How bad can solar storms get?
Our sun regularly pelts the Earth with all kinds of radiation and charged particles. How bad can these solar storms get?
Space Exploration
May 22, 2015
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News tagged with coronal mass ejections
NASA engineer awaits launch of CubeSat mission demonstrating virtual-telescope tech
NASA engineers Neerav Shah and Phil Calhoun will realize a long-held ambition later this year when a Space-X launch vehicle deploys two tiny satellites that will fly in a precise formation to create, in effect, a single or ...
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2016
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Using maths to unravel the Sun's magnetic fields
Complex magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere help heat it to multi-million degree temperatures and create explosive events such as solar flares that affect us here on Earth.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2015
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Old NASA satellite falling to Earth, risk of danger 'low'
An old NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth this week, but experts tracking the spacecraft say chances are low it will pose any danger.
Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2023
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Coronal mass ejections and cosmic ray observations at Syowa Station
Solar activities, such as CME(Coronal Mass Ejection), cause geomagnetic storms that disturb the Earth's magnetosphere. Geomagnetic storms can affect GPS positioning, radio communication, and power transmission system. Solar ...
Astronomy
Jun 15, 2021
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Coronal mass ejection hits Solar Orbiter before Venus flyby
In the early hours of Sunday, September 4, Solar Orbiter flew by Venus for a gravity-assist maneuver that alters the spacecraft's orbit, getting it even closer to the sun. As if trying to get the orbiter's attention as it ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2022
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Sun spits out a coronal mass ejection
At 11:24 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2012, the sun unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME).
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2012
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Discovering trailing components of a coronal mass ejection
Using Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, PSI Associate Research Scientist Elizabeth A. Jensen's team observed radio signals from the MESSENGER spacecraft and discovered that solar eruptions known to cause communication ...
Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2018
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Space weather threatens high-tech life
Shortly after 4 a.m. on a crisp, cloudless September morning in 1859, the sky above what is currently Colorado erupted in bright red and green colors. Fooled by the brightness into thinking it was an early dawn, gold-rush ...
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2018
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Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth
Solar radiation from a massive sun storm -- the largest in nearly a decade -- collided with the Earth's atmosphere, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays.
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2012
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