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NASA's IRIS Spots Its Largest Solar Flare
Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)
On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flar...
NASA-funded sounding rocket to catch aurora in the act
Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)
On Jan. 24, 2014, Marilia Samara will be waiting for the perfect aurora. Samara and her science team will be at the Poker Flat Research Range in Poker Flat, Ala...
With instruments in space and on earth, NJIT solar experts monitor the massive solar storm
Jan 12, 2014 (SPX)
The first powerful "X-class" solar flare of 2014, in association with another solar phenomenon, a giant cloud of solar particles known as a coronal mass ejectio...
NASA's SDO Sees Giant January Sunspots
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
An enormous sunspot, labeled AR1944, slipped into view over the sun's left horizon late on Jan. 1, 2014. The sunspot steadily moved toward the right, along with...
Two Solar Flares Say Goodbye 2013 and Welcome 2014
Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)
The sun ushered out 2013 and welcomed 2014 with two mid-level flares on Dec. 31, 2013 and Jan. 1, 2014. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful r...
Sun 'flips upside down' while reversing magnetic poles
Jan 01, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The sun has undergone a "complete field reversal," with its north and south poles changing places as it marks the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. "A reversal of the...
SDO Shows the Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths
Dec 27, 2013 (SPX)
Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect light in ranges that our eyes alone cannot ...
Britain's Met Office to begin offering space weather forecasts
Dec 26, 2013 (UPI)
Britain's weather service said it will begin providing early warnings of solar storms that can disrupt satellites, radio communications and power grids. The 24-...
Solar activity not a key cause of climate change
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows. The findings overturn a widely held scientific...
NASA creates 'rainbow' movie of the sun based on temperature
Dec 18, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says a movie of the sun based on data from its Solar Dynamics Observatory shows its wide range of wavelengths invisible to the naked eye. The SDO converts ...
CU-Boulder scientist: 2012 solar storm points up need for society to prepare
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
A massive ejection of material from the sun initially traveling at over 7 million miles per hour that narrowly missed Earth last year is an event solar scientis...
IRIS Provides Unprecedented Images of Sun
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
The region located between the surface of the sun and its atmosphere has been revealed as a more violent place than previously understood, according to images a...
Scientist: Near-miss solar storm should be a wake-up call
Dec 10, 2013 (UPI)
A massive solar storm that narrowly missed Earth last year should open the eyes of policymakers to the threat of severe space weather, a U.S. scientist says. Th...
Calm solar cycle prompts questions about impact on Earth
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
The surface of the sun has been surprisingly calm of late -- with fewer sunspots than anytime in in the last century -- prompting curious scientists to wonder j...
Sunspots: Coming and Going
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
Two large, complex sunspots are moving across the face of the sun. One, which produced considerable solar activity in the past weeks, has almost rotated off com...
Image of sun shows two areas of sunspots, one arriving and one leaving
Nov 15, 2013 (UPI)
NASA has released an image of the sun showing two sunspots -- one "coming" and one "going" -- both the size of Jupiter, astronomers say. One, dubbed active regi...
Sun's Magnetic Field Poised to Reverse Its Polarity
Nov 13, 2013 (SPX)
Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a complete makeover when the polarity of its magnetic field - its magnetic north and south - flips. The effects of this large-...
Solar activity playing a minimal role in global warming
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
Changes in solar activity have contributed no more than 10 per cent to global warming in the twentieth century, a new study has found. The findings, made by Pro...
Study: Solar activity not a significant factor in global warming
Nov 09, 2013 (UPI)
As the sun approaches the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, British scientists say they've confirmed that activity plays a minimal roll in global warming. Res...
e2v image sensors capture first images of the mystery region of the Sun
Nov 06, 2013 (SPX)
Image sensors designed and manufactured by e2v, a leading global provider of solutions for space, have captured their first images of the Sun on board NASA's In...
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