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Carrington-class CME Narrowly Misses Earth
May 06, 2014 (SPX)
Last month (April 8-11), scientists, government officials, emergency planners and others converged on Boulder, Colorado, for NOAA's Space Weather Workshop-an an...
X-class Flare Erupts from Sun on April 24
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 8:27 p.m. EDT on April 24, 2014. Images of the flare were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. S...
Bright Points in Sun's Atmosphere Mark Patterns Deep In Its Interior
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
Like a balloon bobbing along in the air while tied to a child's hand, a tracer has been found in the sun's atmosphere to help track the flow of material coursin...
Sun Emits a Mid-level Solar Flare
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar f...
High-Voltage Transmission Lines to Act as Antenna in First-of-its-Kind NASA Space-Weather Project
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
A NASA scientist is launching a one-to-two-year pilot project this summer that takes advantage of U.S. high-voltage power transmission lines to measure a phenom...
NASA's MMS Observatories Stacked For Testing
Apr 23, 2014 (SPX)
Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., accomplished another first. Using a large overhead crane, they mated two Magnetospheric Multi...
ISEE-3: An Old Friend Comes to Visit Earth
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
It launched in 1978. It was the first satellite to study the constant flow of solar wind streaming toward Earth from a stable orbit point between our planet and...
First sightings of solar flare phenomena confirm 3-D models of space weather
Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)
cientists have for the first time witnessed the mechanism behind explosive energy releases in the Sun's atmosphere, confirming new theories about how solar flar...
How to look into the Solar interior
Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)
An international group including one professor from the Moscow State University proposed the first ever quantitative description of the mechanism responsible fo...
Fierce 2012 magnetic storm barely missed Earth
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012. According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession ...
NASA's STEREO Studies Extreme Space Weather
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
On July 22, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space and passing one of NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Re...
Scientists using UNH detector illuminate cause of sun's 'perfect storm'
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international team of scientists, including three from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science C...
Sun's energy influences 1,000 years of natural climate variability in North Atlantic
Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)
Changes in the sun's energy output may have led to marked natural climate change in Europe over the last 1000 years, according to researchers at Cardiff Univers...
THEMIS Discovers New Process that Protects Earth from Space Weather
Mar 11, 2014 (SPX)
In the giant system that connects Earth to the sun, one key event happens over and over: solar material streams toward Earth and the giant magnetic bubble aroun...
New NASA Van Allen Probes Observations Helping To Improve Space Weather Models
Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)
When events in the two giant doughnuts of radiation around Earth - called the Van Allen radiation belts -- cause the belts to swell and electrons to accelerate ...
Plasma plumes help shield Earth from damaging solar storms
Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)
The Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, stretches from the planet's core out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emit...
NASA Releases Image of GREECE Mission Launching Into Aurora
Mar 09, 2014 (SPX)
On March 3, 2014, at 6:09 a.m. EST, a NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska. The Ground-to-Rocket Electrodynamics - ...
India to send mission to probe Sun by 2020
Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)
India will send a mission to probe the Sun by 2020, local media quoted a top space official as reporting Saturday. "The Aditya mission to the Sun has been plann...
Coming Around Again: Giant Sunspot Makes Third Trip Across the Sun
Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists track sunspots that are part of active regions, which often produce large explosions on the sun such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or C...
Hinode Views Sunspot Activity
Mar 06, 2014 (JPL)
Active Region 11967 consisted of a major sunspot that released numerous solar flares in early 2014. Above is an image taken by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT)...
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