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Study: Sun capable of destructive superflare
Dec 08, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers at University of Warwick located a solar superflare among stellar data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The massive burst featured wave p...
Shedding light on particle acceleration in solar flares
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
For scientists studying the impacts of space weather, one of the central mysteries of solar flares - the colossal release of magnetic energy in the Sun's atmosp...
SOHO Celebrates 20 Years of Space-based Science
Dec 02, 2015 (SPX)
After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is still going strong. Originally launched in 1995 to study the sun and its...
A Look Back at NASA Solar Missions
Dec 02, 2015 (SPX)
Twenty years ago, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a cooperative effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, launched into space and revolutionize...
Stormy space weather puts equatorial regions' power at risk
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Dr Brett Carter of the RMIT SPACE Research Centre and his team from RMIT, Boston College and Dartmouth College, found that these equatorial electrical disruptio...
Queen's University Belfast lead research milestone in predicting solar flares
Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by Queen's University Belfast, has devised a high-precision method of examining magnetic fields in the Sun's atmospher...
NASA's Beach Ball Coronagraph
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
What's better at blocking sunlight: a traditional flat occulter disk or a beach ball? NASA scientist Phillip Chamberlin is putting his money on the latter. He a...
Europe comes together for space weather
Nov 06, 2015 (ESA)
Working with scientists in 14 countries across Europe, ESA is developing a warning network that will help protect us from the effects of our Sun's activity. ESA...
US Prepares for Extreme Space Weather
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
A severe solar storm could disrupt the nation's power grid for months, potentially leading to widespread blackouts. Resulting damage and disruption for such an ...
Northern Light secrets uncovered thanks to social networking tools
Nov 03, 2015 (SPX)
New research led by physicists at the University of Warwick has used tools designed to study social networks to gain significant new insights into the Northern ...
Chinese scientists probe mystery of solar storms
Oct 26, 2015 (XNA)
An aurora dancing in the sky reminds scientist Liu Ying of the skirt of a ballerina. But this poetic image belies a potential source of disaster. How does a sup...
Large solar storms 'dodge' detection systems on Earth
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
According to observations from the Tihany Magnetic Observatory in Hungary, the indices used by scientists to assess the Sun's geomagnetic perturbations to the E...
Blast waves in the Sun's atmosphere
Oct 14, 2015 (SPX)
Two teams of researchers led by Nariaki Nitta from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in the USA and by Radoslav Bucik from the Max Planck Institute...
Explosions and plasma jets associated with sunspot formation revealed
Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)
Sunspots are planet-sized conglomerates of bundles of intense magnetic field lines on the surface of the Sun. They are known to cause explosions (solar flares) ...
Mid-sized flare imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
Sep 28, 2015 (UPI)
On Monday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of a mid-class solar flare. The moderate eruption is unlikely to cause space weather strong enoug...
NASA's SDO catches a double photobomb
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was photobombed not once, but twice. Just as th...
Airless Space Weathering Duplicated in Lab Environment
Sep 04, 2015 (SPX)
Using laboratory instruments typically used to make semiconductor devices, space weathering of airless bodies in the Solar System has been simulated, allowing r...
NASA SDO: Images of a mid-level solar flare
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 3:33 a.m EDT on Aug. 24, 2015. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured...
Hinode, IRIS, and ATERUI cooperate on 70-year-old solar mystery
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
Solar physicists have captured the first direct observational signatures of resonant absorption, thought to play an important role in solving the "coronal heati...
NCAR's solar lab to celebrate 75th anniversary
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
The High Altitude Observatory (HAO) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is celebrating its 75th anniversary, a milestone in an ongoing quest ...
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