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Solar storm researchers prepare for the 'big one' with new urgency
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
The specter of a geomagnetic solar storm with the ferocity to disrupt communications satellites, knock out GPS systems, shut down air travel and quench lights, ...
Space weather satellite ICON on course for summer 2017 launch
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's newest space weather research satellite, the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, is on course for a summer 2017 launch after UC Berkeley scientists and thei...
Solar Wind Induces Jupiter's X-ray Aurora
Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)
Jupiter boasts some of the most powerful auroras in the solar system. Compared to the Earth's aurora, Jupiter's is a few hundred times more powerful and brighte...
Solar storms trigger Jupiter's 'Northern Lights'
Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)
Solar storms trigger Jupiter's intense 'Northern Lights' by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more en...
The dangers of powerful geomagnetic storms generated by solar activity
Mar 15, 2016 (SPX)
The sun's violent activity and many unexpected and unpredictable events taking place on its surface throughout the years, are evidently suggesting that we shoul...
Citizen scientists help NASA researchers understand auroras
Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)
Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald has seen auroras more than five times in her life, but it was the aurora she didn't see that affected her the most. On the...
Coronal mass ejection simulations to boost space weather forecasting
Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are massive expulsions of magnetic flux into space from the solar corona, the ionized atmosphere surrounding the sun. Magnetic sto...
Sun's Magnetic Fields Best at Forecasting Solar Cycle Peaks
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
Models based on the Sun's polar magnetic fields performed best in simulating the solar cycle and predicting solar behavior. Solar activity level rises and falls...
Hitching a Ride on SLS to Study Solar Particles
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
A miniature research spacecraft called the CubeSat to study Solar Particles (CuSP) is one of the lucky projects that will have the opportunity to hitch a ride o...
NASA Helps Power Grids Weather Geomagnetic Storms
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
On March 9, 1989, a huge cloud of solar material exploded from the sun, twisting toward Earth. When this cloud of magnetized solar material - called a coronal m...
CuSP will observe solar energetic particles in outer space
Feb 03, 2016 (SPX)
NASA announced that a miniature solar particle research spacecraft to be built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will launch aboard NASA's Exploration Miss...
Understanding the magnetic sun
Jan 31, 2016 (SPX)
The surface of the sun writhes and dances. Far from the still, whitish-yellow disk it appears to be from the ground, the sun sports twisting, towering loops and...
Integral X-rays Earth's aurora
Jan 27, 2016 (ESA)
Normally busy with observing high-energy black holes, supernovas and neutron stars, ESA's Integral space observatory recently had the chance to look back at our...
Getting Down to Earth with Space Hazards
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
Magnetic storms can interfere with the operation of electric power grids and damage grid infrastructure. They can also disrupt directional drilling for oil and ...
New research suggests sun's magnetic field may soon change
Jan 04, 2016 (UPI)
As stars age, their rotations slow. By modeling this process, researchers have been able to accurately estimate the age of stars. The dating strategy is called ...
Description of mechanism that halts solar eruptions
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
Among the most feared events in space physics are solar eruptions, massive explosions that hurl millions of tons of plasma gas and radiation into space. These o...
Aurora borealis could make New Year's Eve appearance
Dec 30, 2015 (UPI)
Earlier this week, NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center reported an M1 solar flare and associated coronal mass ejection. The resulting geomagnetic storm hit E...
Railways: Ensuring readiness in case of space weather events
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
The JRC has been looking into the risks of space weather impact on critical infrastructures. A new report explores the rail sector's vulnerability and the poten...
Auroral mystery solved: Sudden bursts caused by swirling charged particles
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
Auroras are dimly present throughout the night in polar regions, but sometimes these lights explode in brightness. Now Japanese scientists have unlocked the mys...
Saving NASA's STEREO-B
Dec 14, 2015 (SPX)
On Oct. 1, 2014, NASA mission operations lost communication with one of the two spacecraft of the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, missio...
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